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Little
Toomai
stared
again
and
again
.
The
clearing
,
as
he
remembered
it
,
had
grown
in
the
night
.
More
trees
stood
in
the
middle
of
it
,
but
the
undergrowth
and
the
jungle
grass
at
the
sides
had
been
rolled
back
.
Little
Toomai
stared
once
more
.
Now
he
understood
the
trampling
.
The
elephants
had
stamped
out
more
room
--
had
stamped
the
thick
grass
and
juicy
cane
to
trash
,
the
trash
into
slivers
,
the
slivers
into
tiny
fibers
,
and
the
fibers
into
hard
earth
.
"
Wah
!
"
said
Little
Toomai
,
and
his
eyes
were
very
heavy
.
"
Kala
Nag
,
my
lord
,
let
us
keep
by
Pudmini
and
go
to
Petersen
Sahib
's
camp
,
or
I
shall
drop
from
thy
neck
.
"
The
third
elephant
watched
the
two
go
away
,
snorted
,
wheeled
round
,
and
took
his
own
path
.
He
may
have
belonged
to
some
little
native
king
's
establishment
,
fifty
or
sixty
or
a
hundred
miles
away
.
Two
hours
later
,
as
Petersen
Sahib
was
eating
early
breakfast
,
his
elephants
,
who
had
been
double
chained
that
night
,
began
to
trumpet
,
and
Pudmini
,
mired
to
the
shoulders
,
with
Kala
Nag
,
very
footsore
,
shambled
into
the
camp
.
Little
Toomai
's
face
was
gray
and
pinched
,
and
his
hair
was
full
of
leaves
and
drenched
with
dew
,
but
he
tried
to
salute
Petersen
Sahib
,
and
cried
faintly
:
"
The
dance
--
the
elephant
dance
!
I
have
seen
it
,
and
--
I
die
!
"
As
Kala
Nag
sat
down
,
he
slid
off
his
neck
in
a
dead
faint
.
But
,
since
native
children
have
no
nerves
worth
speaking
of
,
in
two
hours
he
was
lying
very
contentedly
in
Petersen
Sahib
's
hammock
with
Petersen
Sahib
's
shooting-coat
under
his
head
,
and
a
glass
of
warm
milk
,
a
little
brandy
,
with
a
dash
of
quinine
,
inside
of
him
,
and
while
the
old
hairy
,
scarred
hunters
of
the
jungles
sat
three
deep
before
him
,
looking
at
him
as
though
he
were
a
spirit
,
he
told
his
tale
in
short
words
,
as
a
child
will
,
and
wound
up
with
:
"
Now
,
if
I
lie
in
one
word
,
send
men
to
see
,
and
they
will
find
that
the
elephant
folk
have
trampled
down
more
room
in
their
dance-room
,
and
they
will
find
ten
and
ten
,
and
many
times
ten
,
tracks
leading
to
that
dance-room
.
They
made
more
room
with
their
feet
.
I
have
seen
it
.
Kala
Nag
took
me
,
and
I
saw
.
Also
Kala
Nag
is
very
leg-weary
!
"
Little
Toomai
lay
back
and
slept
all
through
the
long
afternoon
and
into
the
twilight
,
and
while
he
slept
Petersen
Sahib
and
Machua
Appa
followed
the
track
of
the
two
elephants
for
fifteen
miles
across
the
hills
.
Petersen
Sahib
had
spent
eighteen
years
in
catching
elephants
,
and
he
had
only
once
before
found
such
a
dance-place
.
Machua
Appa
had
no
need
to
look
twice
at
the
clearing
to
see
what
had
been
done
there
,
or
to
scratch
with
his
toe
in
the
packed
,
rammed
earth
.
"
The
child
speaks
truth
,
"
said
he
.
"
All
this
was
done
last
night
,
and
I
have
counted
seventy
tracks
crossing
the
river
.
See
,
Sahib
,
where
Pudmini
's
leg-iron
cut
the
bark
of
that
tree
!
Yes
;
she
was
there
too
.
"
They
looked
at
one
another
and
up
and
down
,
and
they
wondered
.
For
the
ways
of
elephants
are
beyond
the
wit
of
any
man
,
black
or
white
,
to
fathom
.
