The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-06-25
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n our fellows endeavor to make things
pleasant in the Brckfelds you are not
to think that they neglect their duty and
throw away opportunities to get some
game. In fact. they do all they know
to make as many kills as they can, and
to get the Beers to fight. They did one
of the cutest and smartest things I ever
heard of In connection with warfare the
other day. The Dutch LATED in their
trench and our boys, having exhausted
all other means TO induce them to have
a ruction. hit upon a ruse. They played
a concertina, and danced and sang. and
generally made the welkin ring. and ,at
last the Beers could contain their Gu
riosity no longer. Several OF them popped
their heads over the edge of the sandbags
to see what was going on. and what was
the cause of the jolification. AS soon as
they appeared three men who had their
rifles peeping through our loopholes,
loosed of. and two fell to our bag-not
two wounded. but two killed. Feltham
Dynamite Dick) does much good out
there in command. He knows every
move on the board. and It would take
an extra good Dutchman to outwit him.
At our st. Patrick's night smoker he
lost his lucky farthing. and proclaimed
that ne was ''in for IT." Strangely
enough, the next morning he got his first
and only wound, when a splinter from a
hand The incident should interest some
of your supersutious readers.
This new gunner that they have sent
In place OF the man sent in by one
of our sharpshooters awhile ago Is quite
a swasger fellow. drOssed In khaki. with
n broad and gaudy kummerbund around
his waist. He is as smart as he is
namental. and gets in shells with Won
derful rapidity. The late lamentea gun
- l.s-
jecties beyond or wide of the town. and
they fell harmless on the weld or struck
the women's lager. but this fellow
pumps them into the center of thesplace
every time. He heavily bombarded us
for three days with huge shrapnel shells,
and II was something to listen to the
showers OF scrap iron falling on the tin
roofs like Goals being tipped into an
empty Cardiff collier. Sufficient shrap-
mel was used to sweep away brigade
in the open. hut our only casualties were
five--one white man and four blacks. three
of the latter dying from their wounds.
All the Karfirs were struck ut the same
time beside the court house. which Ia
opposite my hotel The shell came through
the wall Of the building where fifty Of
them were sheltering with tremendous
roar and crash. and blew huge hole
In it. When the smoke and dust cleared
away the four men were lying on the
ground. one dead, with most OF his head
gone. the others badly wounded. As
usual, the men who were hurt took their
wounds with stoical fatalism. and ut
tered not a murmur. and the ebony on
lockers regarded their fallen comrades
with hot the slightest concern. II passes
my comprehension how the kafar or any
other person cast in the mold OF human
ity can look upon shell-torn friend with
as little concern as though he were
looking on the form Of a sleeping man.
Tho negro looks on with no care. no IN
terest. and smokes his pipe while the
white people patch up his companion, II
he Is at all patchahe or pile him up
on a litter and send him away for burial
II he has had the misfortune to No killed
The other morning the KsfAr who cleans
tho bank premises turned UP and told
the manager about the death OF his
brother much as he might describe "A ter
rier aght. Him dead. Him piece-goo
much piece. All gone" lie meant 20
convey that shell had male too many
scraps 81 his relative and the pieces had
been taken away for interment-Pa Mall
Gazette.