'You've killed a brave,' he said, apparently with regret.
'Well, I sat here and suddenly saw something dark on the other side.

I spied him when he was still over there.

It was as if a man had come there and fallen in.

Strange! And a piece of driftwood, a good-sized piece, comes floating, not with the stream but across it; and what do I see but a head appearing from under it! Strange! I stretched out of the reeds but could see nothing; then I rose and he must have heard, the beast, and crept out into the shallow and looked about.

"No, you don't!" I said, as soon as he landed and looked round, "you won't get away!" Oh, there was something choking me! I got my gun ready but did not stir, and looked out.