ONE FOR HIS NOB.
A private of the Royal Berkshires gives an interesting item of his experiences us a scout with Gataere's column. He says: "We had a bit of a skirmish three, days after Christmas, driving the Boers out of Dordrecht, where'we lost eleven men. J was out scouting right in the front, with a chap of the Cape Mounted Police, and 1 was nearly captured. We got round a I bit of a kopje, and we tossed up to see who should investigate the centre. 1 lost, so I had to go through the middle, and he round the outside. \ had advanced a hundred yards when T heard a faint rustle, and, getting- oft' my horse, I crept cautiously forward, | and then 1 saw a Boer on the same job ias myself. 'Well, old man,' 1 thought, 1 'it's either you or me.' I crept back ito my horse, and got a mallet, that !we use for driving in pegs for tether- | ; ing our horses. If I had shot the Boer !it might have warned some others. So , 1 crept, along till 1 got right behind , the. Dutchman. "I made a spring and ' i landed him on<? on the top of the head. | I had avenged some of my chums. Then I got back to camp as fast as I could and reported."
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXI, Issue 64, 16 March 1900, Page 2
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225ONE FOR HIS NOB. Auckland Star, Volume XXXI, Issue 64, 16 March 1900, Page 2
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