(I ought to have told you about that balloon, by the way.

We sent it up first on Sunday morning, our Zulu savages opening their mouths at it, beating their lips, and patting their stomachs with peculiar cries.) "Long Tom" had come.

"Long Tom," the hero of Dundee, able to hurl his vast iron cylinder a clean six miles as often as you will.

I saw him and his brother gun on trucks at Sand River Camp on the Transvaal border just before the war began.

They say he is French--a Creusot gun--throwing, some say 40lbs., some 95lbs., each shot.