On a gooseberry bush in the midst of the farm they also left a white flag, where it still flew to protect a few fat pigs, turkeys, and other fowl.
The white flag is becoming a kind of fetish.

To-day all our white tents were smeared with reddish mud to make them less visible.

Beyond Range Post the enemy set up a new gun commanding the Maritzburg road as it crossed that point of hill.

The Irish Fusiliers who held that position were shelled heavily, but without loss.
_November 23, 1899._ The schoolmaster's wife had a fine escape.

She was asleep in her bedroom when a 45lb.