What is to hinder us ?--the elephant is too busy to notice us." "True--an excellent idea of yours, brother Caspar." "Well, then, to put it in execution.

I shall slip down to the ground; you follow to the lowest branch, and I can hand the guns up to you.
Keep steady, and don't you fear, Ossy!" added the young hunter in a louder voice, addressing himself to the shikaree.

"We'll fetch him away from you directly--we'll tickle him with an ounce or two of lead through that thick hide of his." So saying, Caspar commenced letting himself rapidly down from branch to branch, Karl following more leisurely.
Caspar had got upon the lowest limb of the tree, and Karl on that immediately above it, when a loud crash, accompanied by a piercing shriek, arrested the progress of both, causing them suddenly to turn their faces towards the obelisk.

During the short time that their eyes had been averted from it, a complete change had taken place in that curious tableau.

Instead of a tall column of stone, standing twenty-feet perpendicular, the same column was now seen lying along the earth in a nearly horizontal position, with a huge mass of broken boughs and branches of trees crushed under its top.