CHAPTER ELEVEN.
A WHOLESALE TUMBLE.
In this attitude he remained for several minutes--the elephant all the while continuing its efforts to reach him Karl and Caspar, seated upon the branches of the tree, to which they had retreated, were witnesses of the whole scene from beginning to end.

The situation of Ossaroo would have bean sufficiently ludicrous for Caspar to have laughed at it, but for the danger in which the shikaree was placed.

This was so evident, that instead of indulging in anything akin to levity, Caspar looked on with feelings of deep anxiety, Karl being equally apprehensive about the result.

Neither could do anything to aid or rescue him, as they were unarmed--both having dropped their pieces when ascending the tree.
I have said that Karl was as uneasy about the result as his brother.

He was even more so.