None were so successful as the first, and only few of them burst, but shells are very unpleasant, and it was a relief when at the second or third shot from our batteries we found the enemy's shells had ceased to arrive.

We had destroyed the limber, if not the gun, and after that the shells were all on one side.

Some say the Boers had two guns, but I only saw one myself, and I watched it as a mouse watches a cat.

One does.
The Boers, however, had many cats to watch.

Climbing up the ridge towards its left end, I sat among the rocks with the Liverpools and Devons beside one of the batteries, and got a good view of the Boer position.