CURIOUS CHRISTMAS GIFT.
On the morning of December 25, 1899, the besieged Ladysmith garrison sent the Boers a Christmas card enclosed in a 50-pounder. Not to be outdone in -politeness, the enemy, on the evening of the last day of the old year, fired two plugged shells into the British camp. On one was inscribed the compliments of the season, while the other, on being opened, was found to contain a real English Christmas plum pudding, accompanied by a .letter of greeting.
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 72, 18 December 1928, Page 44 (Supplement)
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82CURIOUS CHRISTMAS GIFT. Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 72, 18 December 1928, Page 44 (Supplement)
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