Off jumped the driver and stoker, and the new kind of projectile sped away into the dark.

It ran for about two miles with success, and then dashed off the rails in going round a curve.

And there it remains, the Boers showing their curiosity by prodding it with rifles.

Unless it is hopelessly smashed up, the Free State has secured a second engine for the conveyance of its wives and daughters.
It is a military order that all cattle going out to graze on the flats close to the town should be tended by armed and mounted drivers, but no one has taken the trouble to see the order carried out.

The Empire in this country means any dodge for making money without work.