That was about the number, when they first attacked." "You must have been exposed to a tremendous fire.

The walls are everywhere pitted with bullet marks, and the upper story seems perfectly riddled with balls; but of course none of you were up there." "Yes, we used it as a lookout.

As you see, I made four loopholes in each side and, as we lay well back, their bullets passed over our heads.
"What we want now is water.

We drank the last drop, when we saw you coming.

We had scarcely a mouthful each, and we have not had much more during the siege." Flasks were instantly produced, and each man drank his fill.
"And now we had better be off," the officer in command of the relief party said.