He died in a few hours.

His last words were, "I hope you got your breakfast all right, sir." The house had long been a death-trap.

Perhaps the Boers aim at the telegraph-office across the road, or possibly spies have told them Colonel Rhodes goes there for meals.

The General has now declared the place too dangerous for habitation.
In the afternoon we were to have had a military tournament on the Islington model, but the General stopped it, because the enemy would certainly have thrown shells into our midst, and women and children would have been there.

At night, however, the Natal Volunteers gave another open-air concert.