The Irish standard., 1900-09-22
tops of the steel jackets clipped off,
so that they would hatten out lii:
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tops of the steel jackets clipped off,
so that they would 1atten out Ill:
dtim-dum Bullet when striking a man.
1.-THE last lot of ammunition cap
tured by Christian De Wet had 10000
rounds of these split Lee Metford bull
let's. We've found lots of them in the
field, too. They are about the only
kind of Lee-Metford bullets that the
Beers have captured, so that we are
obliged to use them in the British
ers."
This 1rish-American camp is a fine
place to go to hear 1.-THE other side"
Perhaps they occasionally, in an ex-
cess of partisan zeal, paint the British
in colors too unvarying in their black
ness, but an evenings talk with en-
thusiastic radicals is sure to be re-
freshing to one who has been surfeitcd
with stories eXalting everything Brit
ish and cOndemning everything Boer.
Doubtless these Irish Americans occa-
sionally make mistakes in their infor.
nation, or interpret unjustly the mo-
tives of the British. They may be too
sweeping in their denunciaton Of high
English officers and too sanguine of
the future prospects of the Beers, but
even at that there is Il novelty about
hearing the "other side" that is not
unpleasant.
The Beers themselves do not talk
very much, either to exalt their own
achievements or to depreciate the
deeds Of their enemies. Not so with
the Irish-Americans. There one may
get uncensorcd facts about both BOer
and Briton. If Boer leader has made
mistakes these amateur military crit
les never hesitate to say so. In them
there is no fear of "lesse-Alajesty."
They had little good to say for Cronje
and Joubert, but for Louis Botha and
Christian De Wet and Il host Of other
dashing commandments they could not
say enough i'll praise.
Butler and Kitchener they hate, as
indeed do all the people UP here. Dom
Paul they revere as much as Ameri-
cans revere anybody, for i'll him they
see Il stubborn, hlrd-headed old
'scrapper," who has in him the tena
city Of a bulldog, the cunning OF II fox
and the uncompromising aggressive
ness of Il wounded grizzly.
Sometimes these Irish-Americans
would be i'll the saddle twenty-four
hours at Il stretch; then Il rest OF four
hours, and then twenty hours more of
riding. One day their commando
would strike Il blow here and two days
later it would be jumping Il convoy Il
hundred miles away. This mobility
takes work and entails hardship.
When some time to come the ships
begin dropping veterans of the Irish
brigade in New York the people will
hear IL remarkable mixture OF Dutch
and Irish talk. The Irish-Americans
have been making some successful aud
picturesque experiments. The home
folk will hear conversation surcharged
with up saddle off saddle ill
span," "trekking,," "kopjes,' "spruits,"
"intrlin," "out-train," "scoif,' "klips,
81 loofs,' ''conlmanuo, "DiltOnS,
"meulics," "hoeks," "vcidts,' ''voet
znak," "kraal,' "sakabona," ''kona,"
"inllnkas'' and lots of others.
What will our countrymen do when
the land is flooded with thrilling tales
of linking and trekking days The
old veteran of the civil war will then
be completely vanuuishcu, for what
show will simple annals, told i'll plain
American, have against the narratives
full of strange words from Bocr land,
Tagalo land and the Moro land?