found him at last? He looked up at Mother 'Larkey, his lips starting to
twist.

"Nobody's going to take him away!" said Mrs. Mullarkey almost fiercely.
"Just let anybody try it!"

"Why didn't you tell us you had fifty cents?" asked Danny. "I bet you
was going to spend it all for yourself for a ticket to the circus."

"Mr. Barton told me not to tell," replied Jerry. "He said you'd get it
away from me if you knew I had found it and for me to go to the circus
all by myself."

"And you gave that up just for Kathleen?" queried Mrs. Mullarkey.

"I guess Kathleen's cough is much more important than any old circus,"
said Jerry.

Mother 'Larkey thereupon gathered Jerry up in her arms and kissed him.




CHAPTER III

THE WIDTH OF AN ELEPHANT'S TAIL


Jerry tried all the next day and the next to think what it was that the
picture of the elephant jumping the fence almost made him remember, but