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mselves from whatever danger he represented, so they ambled easily away from the spruit and into a sparse collection of low tree When photographs of this tableau filtered back to Sou Africa, they caused anguish, but in St. With dismay she saw that he, too, had nothing: no bed, no box of Jakoba's clothes, no wagon ready for the road~nothing but a brown-gold pot and a Bible. e might have sur- rendered to this temptation had not the affair of the lion skin shown him what fearful temptations threatened his family.

So at least we're across this damned river, but I cannot bring my pen to say, 'We'll lift the siege of Ladysmith in five days. He looks like John Bull. And now the two cousins, surrounded by innumer- 842 able dead, including three Saltwoods, rallied the South Africans. ' 'Yes,' the doctor said.