The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-06-04

and shoot by squads-one squad shoots
while the other is running forward--nnd
then we deployed again skirmishers for
the charge. Right there IL one Of the
hardest things a man has TO do under fire
IL only takes q minute for the line to
stfaighten out, and then It's like a brace
Of steel rails, hut that minutes like an
hour when you're standing stili, looking
on. Then We rushed EN-. II was bayonet
and butt, ard their women fought behind
We we're crazy. crazy for those wells. and
Afghans are always crazy. | jahbed my
bayonet through the chest OF one Of them
as far as II would 60. up to the muzxie OF
the gun. and he swung his sword with
two hands back over his shoulder.
couldn's pull my gun away. so the same
second dropped It, or he would have cut
me in two. When We were done the wells
were full Of corrses. but we drank the
water all the same and it was good
Major Macpherson used 20 regulate
the natives In way that left an i'm
preston One day four niggers were
brought tn him. found guilty OF ravishing
white woman. He led them out to a
sandy place and ordered them 10 dig
tour graves They dug 'em. Then he
ordered three of them to shoot the fourth
ana bury him They did IL. Then he
made tSo 90 EN- shoot the third and bury
MIN. and they did that, Then the last
one had so shoot ~. second and cover him
NJ. and after that the major told OH
thfee soldiers "a shoot and bury the last
one. That was MaePhersons way"
III was the only way wasn't II -
Except, may be. blowing them from
the guns as they did in the musiny
Sometimes the whole army would get
the spirit ~ hutchery into its head and
no generals could hold II in IT ~as that
way with Kitchener after the Gcrytshes
bad ,ssfnY 1ssstt
xh soldiers into "a, meat and ~rewtng
the march ahead. Kitchener gave fha
order that no prisoners were 10 be taken
IL was the easy way out OF IL for him
The day after we got that command we
drove some Of them into a town All e,,.lt
or stone. IL WAS Ahoaki-a They ran
upstairs into the houses and We followed
them. Ny company drove anou, Atty
Up one staircase into a big room looking
out on a stone paved court. They knock
ed cat seven or eight Of Va or the way
up bat there wc had them I took a
look down Into the court Just for a seq
end IL was xiar;ng white In the heat
with blocks of shadows on n. seune water
ssatferets oGt II a piece ~ crooked ston.
Everything tn sight was everlasting stone
and everlasting hot. Then ws put every
one e ths trfesssYa1a te death and threw
the bodies separately down into the court
yar3- u wasn't like Fighting. there was
TO excitement. only the men were 80 ssa3
IN sArneSs. Yes dAin's know .hs next mar
and Re didn't know you. iii IL Wa. over
ard w. wers fsck irte calarrn without
SAYING word We hsd 20 40 these thIrx.1
eeeaG@ eisrgsan's army afan'e"
~Aow ii4 tse army msrca in the soa
aane''
In = below square. with she haxxage
IS shs center. A hollow -esars's the fog
nation fer receiving attack. T3ia yea
ever Yesa ''TAs Lshs That FaiieSt". Well
tsA, aescriaston 81 ths rush 81 ire Massars
sres 90 tire square - TIRE real ,1inx Tsnsy
eaE.s 81 q sorase. a black horde. sczne Ell
xxlEcpsmg hars~s- sshe-s sAEinS l.sssie
ard they tarow themselves On tie aayaness
Many . time I've seen ore take flying
ssas az aais aasen hxea sAyorxsa They
rely o. weight Tas SasEag gurs ter