The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-11-09

Extract from another letter by an
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I'VE are still planted here in front
of Maghersfontein. / hope we Will
move before we take root and begin
to grow branches and leaves. It's
fearfully hot here, and Measles says
If the Beers would give us an induce
ment-if they would put up a brewery
in Maghersfontein. we would take the
hill with rush. I suggest getting all
the officers to buy Kimberley Diamond
stock and then rush right ahead, re-
lieve the place and live in peace and
die in a pot of grease, as the story
books say"
And. next am going to quote from
letter just received. 1t shows that
Reggie is still at it. He forgot a year
ago what 1t was to have bath. He
does without linen. His khaki is seam
ed with mendings and patched to look
like Joseph's coat. He does not know
where or when he lost his single eye
glass. He thinks that Piccadilly is n
place he once read about in novel,
and he wonders IL 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 by the
barber of the regiment. He washes
himself, q. piece at a time, one piece
one day and another piece next week.
He threw away his helmet long ago,
and now wears a cowboys sombrero.
All the straps and bands and toggery
he started with-which was like the
harness of a brewers horse-he has
thrown away, as he threw away his
sword in December, 1900 and now he
Is happiest when he ties his tunic up
in a roll on his saddle and rides in his
flannel shirt and riding breeches. He
even wears veltschoons (veldt shoes
like moccasins) sometimes, though
they say in South Africa that whoever
puts on veltschoons will marry a Boer
girl and never go home.
Upon my word, sometimes you can't
tell Reggie of the guards from an
Australian bushwhacker or a Canuck
woodchopper. And the less difference
you can see the happier is our dude
in war.
! don't say that every Reggie has not
got his idiosyncracies. know one who
always has himself manicured by his
Tommy servant before going into ac-
ton. He shaves. calls In the regimen
tai barber and has his hands looked
after. IF | am killed I mean to look
my best" he says.
ANONstloi lANkbi1 idltbl itLltI. III Is
from the neighborhood of the Free
State and Transvaal border, and IL was
written just three weeks ago;
MY Dear Ralph have had a look
at Durham, bought a suit OF shop
clothes and pretended TO be a civilian:
and so to ----, whence after a fort
night, / trekked TO this place. There
was fighting Of sorts every day and
/ have been more shot at In "A week
than during the past six months. The
local Boer Is a most pernicious beast
Persistent, too, as he only leaves one
kopje TO go and snipe from the next.
The worst Of IL is that four out of FIVE
OF them have been already prisoners IN
our hands once and were released by
Gen. --. May he be haunted by the
ghosts Of those who have lost their
lives through his damnable folly.
THE iOers rave been using this
basin as granary and supply deDOt.
when We got here we found many
fields plouRhod and sOwn and burghers
sit'lnL around on the hills waiting for
their crops 10 grow. one Of our du-
ties IA 90 impede the course Of agrioul.
lure. Tnir viii b. effected / expect. by
building blockhOuaea an over the placs
whence the simple farmer (see ~
bcuchtre's "fruthD viii be- suiped when
trying ~ weed or 10 harvest.