If it be an elephant we have seen--and what else can it be ?" pursued Karl, no longer yielding to a belief in the supernatural character of their nocturnal visitant--"it must of course have got into the valley before us.

The wonder is our having seen no signs of such an animal before.

You, Caspar, have been about more than any of us.

Did you never, in your rambles, observe anything like an elephant's track ?" "Never.

It never occurred to me to look for such a thing.