LIEUTENANTBRABANT'S WAR DANCE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XXXXI, Issue 7052, 13 October 1900, Page 2

LIEUTENANTBRABANT'S WAR DANCE.

A YEOMANRY BLUNDER..

(AUCKLAND STAB COaRHSPONDBNT.)! •i a :i v „ London, August 81, " S , railM " tel «« another good story, namely, why on a certain occasion Lieutenant "Jack" Brabant made a "circus of. himself" round the camp ? re - .. r <w lieutenant must be held justified. H«, with two men, had been nun^ing from dawn till dusk a Boer spy, w ,iose "slimness" and audacity had made him a thorn in the Britishers' side. The quarry gave Brabant and his men a good run— a run worthy of his reputa« tion and dangerous to the pursuers. He dodged them all day up shuts and down dongas, but at last they fixed him so that he had to take to the open. He was splendidly mounted, and raced for life across the veldt with Brabant and company in hot pursuit. Across the fugitive's track, cutting him off from the kopjes, which meant salvation, was a broad and deep donga, and Brabant reckoned his quarry as good as caught. However, to quote •• tfmiler," 11 the godsjhad decided otherwise," for the whiplike craok of rifles suddenly cut the air, and the bullets fell so thick around the pursuers that the three mer , could almost breathe lead. Half a a>\ i* away on the far side of the dorm aD peared a squad of Yeomanry £ IM £ away at Brabant and his a£v ,'Xl 8 t toey let the flying Boe* J, W gJJ Brabant whipped out hia Vndkerohief SfifiSß?fffis t?M t^J*** e7e 7 meanfc ' trying saddle. Th'era was a pause in the ranks through *, fle gathering gloom : « Are you fellahs British?" w «^ • s '- d T" n , you ! m y° u thmi we wem spring bucte?" «I" N ?' b y Jove; but we thought you TWre beastly Boahs. Awfully sorry if We ye caused you any inconvenience. vVhat were you chasing the other fellah loan, eh? ' "Oh 1" howled the disgusted backwoodsman, with a snort of wrath, " we * tooth ye*? 3 kDOW " h6 ' d QU * hiß 6ye «.Jl?« h ,,l ovel " qaoA the Teoman, yer kno "*\ 8 W6 aWfaUy Bporting ' doQ ''

African, 'and the next time you John.^ mes mistake m* for a Boah and plug at back a bit of lead to teaoh you to look