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Wending their way down a bare kloof were about two hundred armed blacks and three men in European garb riding in the centre of the column. "MacGreg him dar, sah!" exclaimed Bela Moshi. "Nonsense!" replied Wilmshurst, yet in his heart he was not at all sure but that the Haussa was right. "MacGreg him make palaver with Bosh-bosh," declared the sergeant.
"Dem make for one-time good shot, sah!" whispered Bela Moshi, calmly setting the backsight of his rifle. "Blow Bosh-bosh him head-bone inside out an' him not know anyting." "Go steady, Bela Moshi," cautioned the subaltern. "Pass the word for the men to fire one volley over their heads but not before I give orders and then rush them with the bayonet. We want them alive, remember."
Several minutes passed, but still the German troops failed to debouch from the scrub. A stealthy footstep behind him made the subaltern turn his head. To his surprise he saw Bela Moshi rigged out in the uniform and equipment of one of the captives. "Me give Bosh-bosh de word 'Come on' one time quick, sah," he announced. "Me know how."
His mother said that Pund- jel came out of a plot of reeds and rushes. Why-Why was silent, but thought in his heart that the whole theory was "bosh-bosh," to use the early reduplicative language of these remote times. Nor could he conceal his doubts about the Deluge and the frog who once drowned all the world. Here is the story of the frog: "Once, long ago, there was a big frog.
"Go ober dem water one-time quick, sah; den you catch Bosh-bosh as him go for run away." "That's a smart idea," declared Dudley, never backward in giving credit for other persons' ideas. "Quite good," agreed the section commander of the patrol. "Over we go; the horses will have to swim."
"If we only had a supply of bombs!" thought Dudley as he watched the ineffectual attempt of his men to induce the occupants of a deep shelter to surrender. Half a dozen Haussas were gathered round the entrance firing volleys into the cavernous depths, and punctuating the fusillade by quaintly-worded threats of what they would do if the Bosh-bosh didn't "show hand up one time bery much quick."