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Updated: May 9, 2025
"I'm a-goin' tu put a question tu yeh, an' 'member now. . . . I want yeh tu think harrd! . . . Now whin Larry Blake came in tu saddle-up an' pull out last night was that ther sorrel o' Windy's still in th' stable or not?" "Eh?" gasped Lee at last, "I dunno! Me nor Lanky wasn't around when Larry pulled out. We was over t' th' hotel, Sarjint."
God in Heaven he had faced the actual pangs of it once, and escaped he could not face it again he wasn't strong enough ... and the unhappy man sprang to his feet to rush from the room and saddle-up the camel for Life and Lucille and then his eye fell on the Sword, the Sword of his Fathers, brought to him by Lucille, who had said, "Have it with you always, Dearest.
The grooms in a shamefaced way protested that some one had passed the "Saddle-up" order, and had a few hectic stinging words addressed to them. Apparently a mounted orderly, galloping past with a message, had shouted out something about the enemy being close behind. The incident being closed, the colonel and myself strapped on belts and revolvers.
Suddenly my ear caught a voice calling up the hillside the colonel's followed twice by the stentorian tones of his servant. The cry was, "Saddle-up!"
No, the Brigade are coming out of action to-morrow morning. We'll shift our waggon line right away to the other side of the village. Saddle-up at once, and get away before it is dark. Move well away from the village while you are about it, and camp by the roadside." The cook looked glum and said my rabbit was cooked to a turn. "Keep it for me until we get settled down again," I said.
I got up and went to the outhouse where my Kaffir slept. I woke him up and asked him where the Hottentot was. "Oh, he is gone," he replied, "to go and fetch his things to go with the baas." I at once felt that there was something wrong, and went and called my men. I told them to saddle-up, and went off with my staff to the farm of Mr. Schoeman on the Valsch River, to the east of Bothaville.
Existence was just a dateless alternation of light and darkness, of saddle-up and off-saddle, of cossack-post, of thinking about water and of yearning with every fibre of one's being for the ineffable boon of a long sleep. It will be seen that the key to the advance over the Namib Desert was the Swakop River.
At 3.30 saddle-up and march till 5.30; off-saddle and supper; then we march on again, as far as necessary, in the cool hours of the early night. On arriving at the end of our march, we form our little laager; to do this we put our saddles down in a square, each man sleeping with his head in the saddle, and the horses inside the square, fastened in two lines on their 'built up' ropes.
As though by common consent the matter which had been under discussion was left in abeyance. "It is time to be moving," the girl said. "See, the sun will be down in an hour. Let us have tea and then we'll saddle-up." Tea was prepared, and by the time the sun dipped below the horizon the horses were re-saddled and all was ready for the return journey. They set out for home.
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