. Besieged by the Boers : a diary of life and events in Kimberly during the siege. the chimney of a patients house andburst upon the open hearth, and the womanherself in another room did not know aboutit till a neighbour came and told her. Therehad been lots of shells about there, and thenoise did not seem greater than that of someof those just close by. The De Beers big gun kept pounding awayin answer to all this, but was only one againsteight or nine, and, behig quite new, the menwere not used to her, and could not do heard a day or two after this that oneof her shells killed three B
. Besieged by the Boers : a diary of life and events in Kimberly during the siege. the chimney of a patients house andburst upon the open hearth, and the womanherself in another room did not know aboutit till a neighbour came and told her. Therehad been lots of shells about there, and thenoise did not seem greater than that of someof those just close by. The De Beers big gun kept pounding awayin answer to all this, but was only one againsteight or nine, and, behig quite new, the menwere not used to her, and could not do heard a day or two after this that oneof her shells killed three Boers. More powerto her ! I wish it had been three thousand. In the afternoon I usually take Agnes outwith me most of the time, so I told her Ihad to go round into several of the placeswhere the shells were coming pretty thick, andsuggested that she had better stay at , however, is very plucky, and does notworry about the shells a bit, so she saidshe would come the same as usual, for if ashell hit me, it might as well hit her went along all round and did the work,. tborse tor Binner 127 but several shells came within a hundredyards of us. Wherever we went they seemedto follow us round. In Beaconsfield, the gun with which theyare trying to hit Rhodes and the Sanatoriumdropped a shell fairly near us, and we pickeda big chunk of it up in the main road afew minutes after, still hot. This gun givesBeaconsfield, and the main road leading fromKimberley past the Sanatorium to Beaconsfield,a very warm time. Several shells have droppedinto the main road—one just in front of atram full of people, one into the Sanatoriumgrounds, one right over it and through thecanteen used by the Volunteers guarding it—without hurting any one. One went throughan outhouse on Ruffels grounds. (Mrs. Katie are in Cape Town.) Several felljust outside the hospital, and one dropped inthe Catholic Orphanage grounds. This gun kept at it at intervals all Wednes-day night, and some of the oth
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