They will for generations remain as the most precious ornaments of some colonial farmhouse.

Then the victors gathered together and sang psalms, not jubilant but sad and quavering.

The prisoners, in a downcast column, weary, spent, and unkempt, filed off to the Boer laager at Waschbank, there to take train for Pretoria.

And at Ladysmith a bugler of Fusiliers, his arm bound, the marks of battle on his dress and person, burst in upon the camp with the news that two veteran regiments had covered the flank of White's retreating army, but at the cost of their own annihilation..