With the joke, "Mind that stuff; it kicks!" he carries it away, and gets a chance, as he says, of filling--well, we know what he says.

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acute signallers will recognise the official title of Colonel Ward.
Since the beginning of the siege one of the saddest sights has been the Boer prisoners lounging away their days on the upper gallery of the gaol.

They have been there since Elands Laagte, nearly four months now, with no news, nothing to do, and nothing to see except one little bit of road visible over the wall.
The solitude has so unnerved them that when the shells fall near the gaol or whiz over the roof the prisoners are said to howl and scream.

On visiting them to-day I found that only seven real prisoners of war are left here, the others being suspects or possible traitors, arrested on suspicion of signalling or sending messages to the enemy.