It is supposed that he must be wearing out.

He has been firing here pretty steadily for over a fortnight, to say nothing of his work at Dundee.

But I think his fire upon the town is quite deliberate.

He might pound away at "Lady Anne" for ever, but there is always a chance that 96lbs.

of iron exploding in a town may, at all events, kill a mule.
So the bombardment went on cheerily through the early morning, till about 10.30 it slackened down in the inexplicable Boer fashion, and hardly one shot an hour was fired afterwards.