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Ladysmith

CHAPTER XIII
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One was a boarding house full of young railway assistants, who had narrow escapes.

The brother gun on Telegraph Hill was also very active, not being so well suppressed by our howitzers as before.

When I was waiting at Colonel Rhodes' cottage by the river, it dropped a shell clear over Pavilion Hill close beside it.

Otherwise the Boer guns behaved with some modesty and discretion.
In the morning I rode up to Waggon Hill, and found that "Lady Anne" had at last arrived there, and was already in position.

She was hauled up in the night in three pieces, each drawn by two span of oxen.


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