MR EIDER HAGGARD IN SOUTH AFRICA.
Mr Rider Haggard was the first man to hoist the British flag in the Transvaal way back in the early seventies. It is said of M* Rider Haggard that h© was once in a farmhouse which was occupied by some Boera, who began discussing a plot against the British, and he knew that if they discovered he was English they would probably shoot him" on the spot as a spy. He was debating how he could get rid of them before they made the discovery, when one of them lit his pip*, and threw the match, still burning, to the floor. Haggar4 leapt up, and stamped it out. "Why do you do that?" asked the leader of the Boers." "Because the British keep all their dynamite under this floor," he replied. In two minutes there wasn't a Boer left on the premises.
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Bush Advocate, Volume XVII, Issue 247, 25 October 1905, Page 3
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148MR EIDER HAGGARD IN SOUTH AFRICA. Bush Advocate, Volume XVII, Issue 247, 25 October 1905, Page 3
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