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So hot did it become that once the horses were called up to bring the battery out of action; it was impossible to approach within a hundred yards, however indeed, as soon as the teams appeared out of the nullah in which the waggon-line had been placed the Turks instantly turned their guns on to them and shelled them out of sight again.
Yes, it was my own horse "Tommy," that old Castle, our ex-adjutant, had given me old Castle's "handy little horse." A gaping hole in the head told all that needed to be told. I found "Swiffy" and the doctor in the workman's cottage that had become Brigade waggon-line headquarters. Yes, "Tommy" had been killed the day before. My groom, Morgan, was riding him.
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