The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1901-11-23

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took me ten minuts-of exouisi,e a ~,
10 straighten out my legs and get
on my feet for | am keeping compai
with an italian gentleman of the pau
of Lumbag0.
However, opened out at fu
length, like a rusty pocketknife, al
started with my ta1d When da
broke Brother Boer' saw us, thous
we could not see him, and he began {
salt and pepper us with his expandln
bullets and his sweet voiced Mause
balls. The Beers got our range 8
cleverly and kept up such devil Of
rain OF lead on us that it got on m
nerves, and said to my men: Ain
you fed up on this? I'm for breaking
cover and chasing those Jonnies out O
their holes
"All were willing, and silly as it was
we jumped up and ran for where the
shots came from. The Beers kept W
hot fire, but none of US was hit, anG
this scared them, though would have
laid five points against fathering that
they were two dozen strong, which
shows once again: how many shots a
man is good for when he loads with a
bunch alta time and only has to wiggle
a finger to keep the lead flying.
We hit one fellow. But all l ment to
say was that we kicked up such a mess
that the horses stampeded, and SO l
could not get you one."
Extract from another letter by an
other of the "pets:"
"We are still planted here in front
of Magersfontein. | hope we will move
before we take root and begin to,grow
branches and leaves. It's fearfully hot
here, and 'Measels' says II the Beers
would give US an inducement-if they
would put up a brewry in Magersfon-
tein--we would take the hill with o
rush. l Isuggest getting all the officers
to buy Kimberley diamond stock and
then rush right ahead, relieve the place
and live in peace and die in pot Of
grease, as the story books say"
And next, am going to quote from
a letter just received. 1t shows that
Reggie is still at it, He forgot year
ago what it was to have bath. He
does without them, His khaki Is
scanned with mendings and patches to
look Ike Joseph's cuat. He does not
know where or when he lost his single
eyeglass. He thinks that Picadadily
Is place he once read about in novel,
and he wonders if he will know his sis
Ter, the Honorable Alice Beacham,
when he sees her. Often he wonders
If he ever will see her, or home, or
white linen again. He is regularly
shaved, and he keeps his hair trimmed
0y the barber of the regiment. He
washes himself, piece at a time, one
piece one day and another piece uext
week. He threw away his hemlet
ong ago, and now wears cowboys
,ombrero. All the straps and bands
Ind toggery he started with-which
vas like the harness OF q brewers
has thrown away, as he
hrew away his sword in December,
900, and now he is happiest when he
les his tunio up in a roll on his saddle
md rifles in his flannel shirt and riding
,reeches. He even wears yeltschoons
weldt shoes-like moccasins some
lines though they say in South AFRICA
hat whoever puts on veltschoons VIII
marry a Boer girl and never go home.
Upon my word, cometimes you can
ell Reggie of the guards from an
australian ,bushwhacker or Ganuck
yood.chopper. And the less difference
on can see the happier Is our dude IN
yar.
| don't say that every Reggie has
OF gothis idiosyncracie5. know one
-ho always has himself manicured by
is Tommy servant before going into
ction. lie shavcs, calls in the regl-
lent barber and has his hands looked 4
fter, "If am killed | mean to look 4
" best, he says.
Now, for Reggle's latest letter 1t [
from the neighborhood of the Free {
tate and Transval harbor, and it was
ritten inst three weeks ago.
..Ny dear Isalph-I have had u look
Durham, bought snit of shop clothes
ID pretended to be civilian; and so
whence, after fortnight, | trek
ID TO this place. There was lighting n
sorts every day, and | have been |;
ore shot at in week than during s
. mast six months. The local Boer Q
q most pernicious beast. Persistent il
o. AS he only leaves one kopje to go h
d snipe from the next. The worst OF ii
4 that four out of five Of them have s.
en- already prisoners in our hands r
ce. and were released by General. q
ay he be haunted by the ghost OF g
q ose who have lost their Iiyest through !,
) damnable folly CT
,The Beers have been using this ba- al
, as a granary and supply depot. g
hen we got here we found many
ia Moved and sown and burghers
ting around on the hills waiting for
air crops to grow. One Of our duties p'
q impede the course Of agriculture. Sc
=, a9ackad exDect, by III