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Updated: June 12, 2025
But with bow and arrow, spear or battle-axe, Mauser or Lee-Metford, the heart behind the weapon is just the same now as then.
Also "one thousand Lee-Metford rifles have been given out" to rebels. Also, in a speech, Reformer Lionel Phillips informs the public that the Reform Committee Delegation has "been received with courtesy by the Government Commission," and "been assured that their proposals shall be earnestly considered."
Spencer points out the aborigines who are destitute, to all appearances, of what we understand by the term morality and traces its growth through almost everlasting generations of men, he is but describing the history of ethic, the development of morality, just as one might write the history of music, or of the rifle, from the days of the blunderbuss to the Mauser or Lee-Metford; but what ethic, what morality, is in se, he leaves untouched.
Krieger, asked him why the Boers used the variety of cartridge that was not sanctioned by the rules of civilised warfare. Dr. Krieger took the cartridge in his hand and, after examining it, returned it to Sir Charles with the remark that it was a British Lee-Metford dum-dum.
"It's a shocking bad light for judging distance," said he. "This is where the low point-blank trajectory of the Lee-Metford comes in useful. Well, we'll try him at five hundred." He fired, but there was no change in the white camel or the peering rider. "Did you see any sand fly?" "No, I saw nothing." "I fancy I took my sight a trifle too full." "Try him again."
Many of the horses supplied by Government were very wild and sometimes behaved like professional buckjumpers; and it is no easy task to control the eccentric and unexpected gyrations of such a beast when the rider is encumbered with the management of a heavy Lee-Metford rifle. Since the day on which I first saw the squadron in question it has passed through its baptism of fire at Colenso.
There will be Lee-Metford rifles and ammunition there ready for thy taking ha-ha!" "And if we are seen and fired on as we stalk the picket on the hill?" "Then their first shot will, as I said, be the signal for your rush and ours. Understandest thou?" "I understand. 'Tis a good plan of the blind Moulvie's." "Aye! He can plan, and talk.
We also took fifty Kaffirs. Two Armstrong guns with more than three hundred rounds of ammunition, some waggons, horses and mules, and a great quantity of Lee-Metford cartridges also fell into our hands. We never knew the exact numbers of the English dead and wounded, but they must have lost something between seventy and one hundred men. Our own loss was heavy.
"Load a rifle Lee-Metford," was the prompt answer. The General smiled wintrily, and, at the conclusion of his peregrination, remarked to Colonel Dearman:
She was flushed a little, and, to cover her confusion, may be, she picked up a Lee-Metford. "Now there are two guns," she said, as she stood near him. He could see through the tail of his eye that a slight but elegantly proportioned young gentleman of the sea-faring profession had suddenly appeared from nowhere. He was glad she had taken this course.
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