Yet he will not risk death for L15! After four false starts, my message remains where it was.

The last Kaffir who tried to get through the Boers with it was shot in the thigh by our pickets as he was returning.

That does not encourage the rest.
_January 13, 1900._ Between seven and eight in the morning the Bulwan gun hurled three shells into our midst, and repeated the exploit in the afternoon.

But somehow he seemed to have lost form.

He was not the Puffing Billy whom we knew.