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Updated: May 22, 2025
"Well, certainly there is some living creature in there, since we have seen it move; and if it be a bird as large as a goose, will you explain to me how it got in, and how it means to get out? There must be a larger entrance on the other side of the tree." "No, sahib," confidently asserted Ossaroo; "that you see before your eye that the only way to de horneebill nest." "Hurrah for you, Ossy!
Karl, as Caspar had done the moment before, saw this with surprise. "Nest?" repeated Caspar, astonished at the shikaree's statement. "A bird's nest? Is that what you mean, Ossy?" "That just it, sahib. Nest of great biggee bird. Feringhees him call horneebill." "Well," rejoined Caspar, not greatly enlightened by Ossaroo's explanation, "that's very curious.
It was a sort of fluttering, clattering sound, or rather a series of sounds, resembling the quickly repeated gusts of a violent storm. The moment Ossaroo heard it, he knew what it was; and instead of giving a direct answer to Caspar's question, he simply said "Wait a bit, sahib. Here come old cockee horneebill; he show you how de hen getee her food."
So you mean to say that a bird as large as a goose can go in and out by that hole? Why, a sparrow could scarcely squeeze itself through there!" "Horneebill he no goee in, he no goee out. He stay inside till him little chickees ready for leavee nest." "Come, Ossy!" said Caspar, in a bantering way; "that story is too good to be true. You don't expect us to believe all that?
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