COLONEL BADEN-POWELL'S JEST.
A trifling jest in War time goes a long way, and Colonel Baden-Powell's cheery message of Saturday bids fair to become historic. "All well," he wired. "Four hours' bombardment. Dog killed." The chief beauty of this cable lies in the fact that the joke gives the full information as to the state of affairs at Mafeking, and leaves the populace pro tern quite comfortable. "He couldn't go on like that," I heard a poor woman say, "if things wasn't all right." But there she of course fell into a mistake. The spirits of men like Colonel Baden-Powell invariably rise at the approach of danger, and the greater the risk the more
jocular they become. The inner history of that "dog, killed" will, I suspect, be found exciting enough for anything.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXX, Issue 295, 13 December 1899, Page 5
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