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The Fusiliers charged with the bayonet when they reached the hills, but the Boers did not wait for
them, I think their losses were much greater than ours, as our artillery managed to drop some lyddite
amongst them once or twice. Next day we buried Cooper. He looked very nice, so did his grave.
There was a cross of stones made right across it, & a wooden cross with his name etc. on it put at his
head. You must excuse the smudges etc. as the wind is blowing a regular hurricane all the while.
That day I went into the butchering line for the first time in my life. We do a litle bit of everything out
here. As we had not been able to buy any pork for some time I thought I would buy a pig myself. So as
my section was on outpost by itself, I went away with another fellow with the section’s water bottles
to fill them, & passed two farm houses, & as I saw some pigs & fowls at one of them I went in it. It is
great fun trying to bargain with the Boer women, when they don’t understand any English, and you
don’t understand any Dutch or whatever they speak. I bought a fowl for 1/- and a pig for 10/-. Well
the next thing was to kill the pig so as to get it to our outpost. The other fellow had no knife & the
Boer woman had none, so I had to kill it with a little one I bought at Kruyersdorp. The blade was not
above two & a half inches long. Well I felt for the two little bones in her throat, which I believe is the
correct thing to do, and stuck the knife blade & handle & all into her. She stopped squealing almost
directly. It made us sweat a bit carrying her & the water bottles back. When I told them what I had
stuck her with they said she would be full of blood, but when we opened her we found she was
beautiful & clean & lovely & fat. Well the other fellow had enough to last him & his pal for about a
week & I had enough to last Lygo & me the same, & we divided the liver & kidneys & leaf [fat]
between us. We rendered the leaf & some more fat down so it did to put on the biscuits. The
remainder of the pig we sold to the other fellows in the section cheap, & made 17/- of it, so we were
3/6 each in pocket besides the pork we had.
30th 8. 1900 Mafeking.
I will continue my letter where I left off. The day after we buried Cooper, we were on the march
again early. We had just stopped by a farm to have breakfast when 2 Boer waggons came in and the
Yeomanry started off immediately so we knew there was some fresh news. We soon heard firing &
when we had had breakfast started off after the Yeomanry. We found them hanging on to De Wet’s lot
again & prepared to help them, but the Boers would not wait. We kept attacking kopje after kopje but
they kept firing a few shots at us, & then retreating long before we got anywhere near them. We kept
on going till the sun was nearly down. While advancing to attack one position a deer got in amongst
us, scared no doubt by the firing, & the veldt being on fire. (You see the shells set the grass on fire &
so sometimes we have to walk 3 or 4 times in an afternoon through the flames.) It ran about for a little
while & then evidently made up its mind to make a dash for liberty. You should just have seen it go. It
went like greased lightning, but just as it was passing 2 of our company they struck at it with their
clubbed rifles & one of them hit it across the nose & rolled it over. It took 2 to carry it. There were
several waggons & an ammunition cart captured that day. Next day we kept on going & finished up
with De Wet on a very high kopje just in front of us, & it was said that there were some men of our
own troops on the other side, so that he
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