A Yeoman's Letters / Third Edition

by P. T. Ross

"And you, good Yeomen,
Whose limbs were made in England, show us here
The mettle of your pasture; let us swear
That you are worth your breeding; which I doubt not."
Shakespeare.

THIRD EDITION.

LONDON:
SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, HAMILTON,
KENT & Co., LIMITED.
1901.

PRINTED BY BURFIELD & PENNELLS,
HASTINGS.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

• [FOREWORD.]
• [The Sussex Yeomanry.]
• [PART 1.]
• [On the Trek.]
• [WITH ROBERTS.]
• [The Occupation of Johannesburg.]
• [Pretoria Taken.]
• [Diamond Hill and After.]
• [Back to Pretoria.]
• [Entertaining a Guest.]
• [The Mails Arrive.]
• [The Nitral's Nek Disaster.]
• [WITH MAHON.]
• [A General Advance to Balmoral and Back.]
• [To Rustenburg.]
• [Ambushed.]
• [Heavy Work for the Recording Angel.]
• [Relief of Eland's River Garrison. Join in the great De Wet hunt.]
• [After De Wet.]
• [The Yeoman, the Argentine and the Farrier-Sergeant.]
• [Commandeering by Order.]
• [WITH CLEMENTS.]
• [Cattle Lifting.]
• [Delarey gives us a Field Day.]
• [Burnt to Death.]
• [The Infection of Spring again.]
• [Death of Lieutenant Stanley.]
• [His Burial.]
• [Promoted to Full Corporal.]
• [Petty Annoyances—The Nigger.]
• [A Wet Night.]
• [The Great Egg Trick.]
• [Our Friend "Nobby."]
• ["The Roughs" leave us for Pretoria.]
• [The breaking up of the Composite Squadron.]
• [Life on a Kopje.]
• [Death and Burial of Captain Hodge.]
• [Camp Life at Krugersdorp.]
• [Lady Snipers at Work.]
• [Treatment of the Sick.]
• [Veldt Church Service.]
• [Comradeship.]
• [IN HOSPITAL.]
• [The Story of Nooitgedacht.]
• [Two Field Hospitals—A Contrast.]
• [Christmas in Hospital.]
• [The Career of an Untruth.]
• [The Sisters' Albums.]
• ["Long live the King!"]
• [The Irish Fusilier's Ambition.]
• ["War without End."]
• [Invitations—and a Concert.]
• [Our Orderly's Blighted Heart.]
• [Southward Ho!]
• [R.A.M.C. Experiences and Impressions.]
• [The Mythical and Real Officer.]
• [The R.A.M.C. Sergeant-Major, and other annoyances.]
• [At the Base.]
• [Another Album!!]
• [Reasons.]
• [Home.]

ILLUSTRATIONS.

• PAGE
• "A Hot Time!" [2]
• "A Camp Sing-Song" [7]
• "The Great Small Game Quest(ion)" [9]
• "The Mealie and Oat Fatigue" [23]
• "Stable Guard" [31]
• "A Terrible Reckoning" [44]
• "Some of the Pomp and Circumstance of Glorious War" [52]
• "A New Rig-out" [58]
• "Oliver Twist on the Veldt" [65]
• "Hate" [68]
• "Mails Up" [87]
• "I'kona" [89]
• "Nobby" [94]
• "Consolation" [112]
• "On Pass" [114]
• "A Peep at Our Domestic Life" [118]
• "Hymns and their Singers" [129]
• "A Friendly Boer Family" [141]
• "Well, it's the best Oi can do for yez" [144]
• "Sick" and "Who said C.I.V.'s?" [148]
• "Got His Ticket" [153]
• "The Thoughtless Sister" [156]
• "God Save the King" [159]
• "Tommy's Spittoon" [171]