How We Kept the Flag Flying the Story of the Siege of Ladysmith
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It was while we rode back from Observation Hill in the evening that a shell from Bulwan fell, with a demoralizing crash, almost on us. The scream, the concussion, the roar of the explo- sion nearly hurled us from the saddle. My chum Greenwood, helped by an alarmed double somersault from his terrified Basuto pony, was thrown, and then I 2o6 HOW WE KEPT THE FLAG FLYING realized that the admiration of a true horseman for his horse is something that passeth human understanding. Badly bruised and pa...rtly stunned, the correspondent sat up in the dust, and, looking at the offending pony — which stood with spread nostrils, prifcked ears, wide eyes, and quivering flanks — gasped in unmistakable admira- tion, "Isn't he a Httle picture?" "If he were mine, " retorted the Central News correspondent, " I'd knock the picture out of its frame with half a brick. " Shriller than ever in Ladysmith rose the different alarm notes, which told that Bulwan is in eruption. There was no longer any false pride as to taking shelter from Long Tom.
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