In the United States the circus rests during the winter.but when they took Kate,
the twenty-two-year-old Indian elephant,out of her warm truck,the cold air made her nervous.she ran away into the.fields around the town.the circus people thought tsar Kate would quickly return but she stayed away for four days.the ten thousand pound elephant crossed a river,broke farm fences,and ate from the trees.but she became very cold and when her people brought her warm truck and a big drink of whiskey,Kate went home with them.