"You can go and attend to that funeral you were talking about last night," he added, and his voice was again drowned in the swish and souse of the water.

"He was rather large--over ten feet--I should say.

Measure him as soon as he--" another cascade completed the sentence.

I went out, taking the measuring tape from the table.
In a few minutes the procession appeared.

Two or three matutinal shikarries had gone out and come back, followed by the elephant, for which Isaacs had sent the ryot at full speed the moment he was sure the beast was dead.