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Ladysmith

CHAPTER XX
18/21

Even this--enough in itself to inflame any English stomach--is reduced to 1/2 lb.

a day.

As I stood at the gate this afternoon taking my first breath of air, I watched the weak-kneed, lantern-jawed soldiers going round from house to house begging in vain for anything to eat.

Yet they say the health of the camp as a whole has improved.

This they attribute to chevril.
During my illness, though I cannot fix the exact day, one of the saddest incidents of the siege has happened.


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