How many big meetings have there been since Shepstone annexed the country?
Six, I think.

And what has come of it all?
Just nothing but talk.

And what can come of it?
Suppose the Boers did fight, what would the end of it be?
They would be beaten, and a lot of people would be killed, and that would be the end of it.

You don't suppose that England would give in to a handful of Boers, do you?
What did General Wolseley say the other day at the dinner in Potchefstroom?
Why, that the country would never be given up, because no Government, Conservative, Liberal, or Radical, would dare to do it.

And now this new Gladstone Government has telegraphed the same thing, so what is the use of all the talk and childishness?
Tell me that, Frank Muller." Muller laughed as he answered, "You are all very simple people, you English.