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Maybe I'm a bit of a pro-Boer, but I stick to it, he says, 'that under proper officers, with due regard to his race prejudices, the Boer'ud make the finest mounted infantry in the Empire. Adrian, he says, 'you're simply squandered on a cattle-run. You ought to be at the Staff College with De Wet. "'You catch De Wet and I come to your Staff College eh, says Adrian, laughing.
Tommy may hold his own opinions on that point, but he resents hearing them expressed for him through a pro-Boer mouthpiece, and this man may consider himself lucky to escape summary chastisement as a preliminary to the durance vile which is intended to be a wholesome warning for others of like tendency.
Of course I let him suppose papa was willing and anxious, which perhaps was a low-down game, but I remembered that all's fair in love and war; and besides, I consider papa very nearly a pro-Boer. We've orders to sail on Friday, which is sharp work; but I should be eternally disgraced now if they stopped me.
That was the first war speech of his life. The second was not long in following. It was made at the City Temple, a famous Nonconformist church in the heart of London. There it was that he said the same reason that made him a "Pro-Boer" made him an advocate of this war by Britain. He referred to the riotous Birmingham meeting.
"'What d'you do about aliens? I said, and the dirt I'd coughed up seemed all back of my tongue again. "'Oh, says he, 'we don't do much of anything. They're about all the society we get. I'm a bit of a pro-Boer myself, he says, 'but between you and me the average Boer ain't over and above intellectual. You're the first American we've met up with, but of course you're a burgher.
We stared helplessly at each other, and then, in the English way, talked of things at large. England was engaged in the Boer War. William was the sort of man whom one would have expected to be violently Pro-Boer. I was surprised at his fervour for the stronger side. He told me he had tried to enlist, but had been rejected on account of his eyesight.
The fellow was just a confounded cousin who didn't come up to Cocker. Never mind! He had given him one or two. 'Pro-Boer! The word still rankled, and thoughts of enlisting jostled his aching head; of riding over the veldt, firing gallantly, while the Boers rolled over like rabbits.
And Jolly said: "I saw you and that fellow in the Park." The sight of blood rushing into her cheeks gave him some satisfaction; she ought to be ashamed! "Well?" she said. Jolly was surprised; he had expected more, or less. "Do you know," he said weightily, "that he called me a pro-Boer last term? And I had to fight him." "Who won?"
Once during an attack on our right, their convoy came so close to our position that our artillery and our Mausers were enabled to pour such a fire into them that the mules drawing the carts careered about the veldt at random, and the greatest confusion ensued. British mules were "pro-Boer" throughout the War.
'All right! he thought, 'you wait, my friend! More wine than was good for him, as the custom was, helped him to remember, when they all trooped forth to a secluded spot, to touch Val on the arm. "What did you say about me in there?" "Mayn't I say what I like?" "No." "Well, I said you were a pro-Boer and so you are!" "You're a liar!" "D'you want a row?" "Of course, but not here; in the garden."
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