Like good employers, they seldom expose our lives to danger for more than eight hours a day.

They are a little capricious, perhaps, in the use of the white flag.

At the beginning of the siege our "Lady Anne" killed or wounded some of "Long Tom's" gunners and damaged the gun.

Whereupon the Boers hoisted the white flag over him till the place was cleared and he was put to rights again.

Then they drew it down and went on firing.