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Updated: May 31, 2025
I said in a low tone, for I was afraid now that I had alarmed the sentries on either side; but though Joeboy's load on one side bumped against my companion sentry, he was so utterly wearied out that he did not stir. "Um? Idiot?" said Joeboy. "Boss Val going to be hungry. Joeboy hungry. Been to get all these." "What are they forage-bags?" "Um!" he said. "But where did you get them whose are they?"
A little further questioning made it all clear that under cover of the darkness the plucky fellow had crept up the valley, taking advantage of the shelter afforded by the stones, passed the lines of the Boers, and hunted about till he came upon something worth having in the shape of a pile of canvas forage-bags containing the men's provender, which they had left together and in charge of a sentinel, so as to be unencumbered in their attack upon us.
The rest, as usual, dispersed under the trees and along the nettle-beds by the wall. It occurred to me that, if I let these gentlemen work round to my rear, they might distract my attention perhaps at an awkward moment by nosing up to the forage-bags or upsetting the camp-furniture, so with a wave of my musket I headed them back.
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