It began firing early in the morning and continued at intervals all day.

For an hour or two people were surprised at seeing a free balloon sailing away towards Bulwan.

It turned out to be one of Captain Heath's dummies, which had got away.

He tells me it will be entirely useless to the enemy in any case.
_December 12, 1899._ I was so overcome with fever that again my aspect of things was not quite straight.

After dawn the Bulwan gun shelled the Star bakery, close to my cottage, and the stones and earth splashing on my roof woke me up too early.