Ah, those poor, poor _rooibaatjes_, one Boer will drive away twenty of them and make them run across the veldt, if they can run in those great knapsacks of theirs, with the tin things hanging round them like the pots and kettles to the bed-plank of a waggon.

What says the Holy Book?
'One thousand shall flee at the rebuke of one, and at the rebuke of five shall ye flee,' at least I think that is it.

The dear Lord knew what was coming when He wrote it.
He was thinking of the Boers and the poor _rooibaatjes_," and Coetzee departed, shaking his head sadly.
"I am glad that the old gentleman has made tracks," said John, "for if he had gone on much longer about the poor English soldiers he would have fled 'at the rebuke of one,' I can tell him." "John," said Silas Croft suddenly, "you must go up to Pretoria and fetch Jess.

Mark my words, the Boers will besiege Pretoria, and if we don't get her down at once she will be shut up there." "Oh no," cried Bessie, in sudden alarm, "I cannot let John go." "I am sorry to hear you talk like that, Bessie, when your sister is in danger," answered her uncle rather sternly; "but there, I dare say that it is natural.

I will go myself.