It was hard indeed for them to watch the soldiers flinging the corn on the ground before their horses' hoofs.

Still harder was it to see that which had cost them so much labour thrown into the flames.
In spite of the fact that the English, in order to destroy our crops, had let their horses and draught oxen loose upon the land, there was still an abundant harvest--perhaps the best that we had ever seen.

And so it happened that whilst the men were at the front, the housewives could feed the horses in the stable.

But Lord Roberts, acting on the advice of unfaithful burghers, laid his hand upon the housewives' work, and burnt the grain that they had stored.] [Footnote 38: This Court was not composed of officers, but consisted of three persons, one of whom was a lawyer.] [Footnote 39: Township.] [Footnote 40: Police Agent.] [Footnote 41: Railway trucks.] [Footnote 42: Everyone will know him, this brave man of pure Afrikander blood, subsequently a famous Commander, a martyr.

I appointed him Captain of Scouts, and from the moment that he commenced his work I saw that a _man_ had come forward.