TOMMY ATKINS' BLOOD UP.
Most of the Boers were shot either - through ib.3 chest or the lower part of the body, for even in that hurricane of death these well disciplined fighters had kept the points of their lifles low. Their fighting was superb, and the Boers admitted it. The compliment is more gennine in that " the quality of mercy " ib not being strained by the Gordons. " I pit me bayonet through one big red headed chap," said nnggety little Malcalm of Perthshire, " an' I had to lift my foot to li? chest ta poo it cot." Nor are the Fnailiers over nice with the enemy. Two of them at.Dundee found a joung Boer lying partly under an old man, who wsb dead, with a little heap of Manser . shells beside him. "What's the mathor wid ye ? * said a big fellow. " I'm shot here," said the burgher, pointii g to bin light High. They searched for the bullet wound, and found rone. "Why, blaaht jp, it's only thammia' ye aTe," said the Irishman, as he laid him out on the veldt with a heavy rightlander on the chin.
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Taranaki Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 11698, 13 December 1899, Page 3
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188TOMMY ATKINS' BLOOD UP. Taranaki Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 11698, 13 December 1899, Page 3
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