3/5 It's gone-- alas! it's gone; and you, Fritz, have this day done a thing that will cause us all regret--perhaps for the rest of our lives." "I don't comprehend you, brother!" said Caspar; "but if it's the escape of the storks that's to be so much regretted, perhaps it will never take place. They don't appear to be in such a hurry to leave us-- notwithstanding the inhospitable reception Fritz has given them. See! they are circling about, as if they intended to come down again. And see also Ossaroo--he's holding out a lure for them. I warrant the old shikaree will succeed in coaxing them back. |