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That, carnivorous," he continued, glancing his
eye at the open page of his tablets; "this, granivorous; habits,
fierce, dangerous; habits, patient, abstemious; ears, inconspicuous;
ears, elongated; horns, diverging, &c., horns, none!"
He was interrupted by another burst of merriment from Ellen, which
served, in some measure, to recall him to his recollection.
"The image of the Vespertilio was on the retina," the astounded
enquirer into the secrets of nature observed, in a manner that seemed
a little apologetic, "and I was silly enough to mistake my own
faithful beast for the monster. Though even now I greatly marvel to
see this animal running at large!"
Ellen then proceeded to explain the history of the attack and its
results. She described, with an accuracy that might have raised
suspicions of her own movements in the mind of one less simple than
her auditor, the manner in which the beasts burst out of the
encampment, and the headlong speed with which they had dispersed
themselves over the open plain.


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