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The Boer position was only about two miles from our ridge; a long shallow hollow of bare ground, without bush or rock, or any sort of cover on it, except a few anthills, separating us from them. Our field-batteries opened, and then the great five-inch cow-guns roared out. After a shot or two all our guns got the range, a mere stone's throw for the great five-inchers.
"A five-inch shell is worth $60, and as we fired about two hundred and fifty, it means just $15,000 worth of five-inchers alone." "Then there are the six-pounders." "They cost $20 a shot," resumed "Hay," reflectively. "I guess we must have fired about a million of them." "Hardly that," smiled Tommy, "but we expended enough to bring the total up to $18,000 at the very least.
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