But not many went, and most of those had relations among the Boers or were Boers themselves.
When the trains had gone, Captain Lambton, of the _Powerful_, showed me the new protection which his men and the sappers had built round the great 4.7 in.

gun, which is always kept trained on "Long Tom." The sailors call the gun "Lady Anne," in compliment to Captain Lambton's sister, but the soldiers have named it "Weary Willie"-- I don't know why.
The fellow gun on Cove Hill is called "Bloody Mary"-- which is no compliment to anybody.

The earthwork running round the "Lady Anne" is eighteen feet deep at the base.

Had it been as deep the first day she came, Lieutenant Egerton would still be at her side.
_November 6, 1899._ When the melodrama doesn't come off, an indignant Briton demands his money back.

Our melodrama has not come off.