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Old De Villiers, the Harrismith commandant, shot him over the wall, and was in turn shot by Corporal Albrecht, of the Light Horse, who was himself shot by a Field-Cornet, who was in turn shot by Digby-Jones, the sapper. So it went on. The Boers advanced to absolutely certain death, and they met it without hesitation the Boers who would never have the courage to attack a position!
Hundreds of wretches were torn to pieces, and hundreds of others were crushed beneath the falling ruins. A sapper had blown up the arch! At this sight, the cry of treason rang from mouth to mouth. "We are lost betrayed!" was now the cry on all sides. The tumult was fearful.
The cadaverous gentleman at your store, whose face has been passed over by some heavy body, proved both unsympathetic and suspicious this morning when I asked him for them. Wherefore, if you will sign " He held out a book to the Sapper. "'Please issue bearer with twelve planks 9 inch by 2 inch; length, 6 feet." The Sapper glanced at the page and signed. "There you are, James.
A line of men, shirt-sleeved like himself and carrying spades in their hands, moved out past him. An officer led them, and another with Sapper Duffy's section officer brought up the rear, and passed along the word to halt when he reached Daffy. 'Here's the outside man of my lot, he said, 'so you'll join on beyond him. You've just come in, I hear, so I suppose your men are fresh?
An ancient horror in the blood of the population, conceiving the word to signify, beak, fang, and claw, the fiendish ancient enemy of the roasting day of yore, heard and echoed. Sleepless at the work of the sapper, in preparation for the tiger's leap, Rome is keen to spy the foothold of English stability, and her clasp of a pillar of the structure sends tremors to our foundations.
I called here six times, and walked and talked with you. Cecilia set her face to the garden. Her heart had entered on a course of heavy thumping, like a sapper in the mine. Pain was not unwelcome to her, but this threatened weakness. What plain words could she use? If Mr. Tuckham had been away from the house, she would have found it easier to speak of her engagement; she knew not why.
Personally, I am glad to say I have never seen a German's eye through a periscope; but then personally I am inclined to doubt if any one has. It must be quite dreadful to see a thing like a poached egg regarding you balefully from the top of a stick a few yards away. At last the Sapper got up. "He's no nearer, Jacko. What do you think, sergeant?"
Until then he had meant to be an officer of Artillery a "gunner," as they are called. Now he knew that he would always be six months behind his gunner friends, and so decided to work instead for the Engineers, and get his commission as a "sapper." At college, as well as at school, his map-drawing was very good, and his mother was very proud of what he did.
The sapper rushed him round a bend, and then crouched down. "Twenty seconds," he gasped, "an' me out of training. Lumme! wot a life." The next instant the ground quivered as if an earthquake had occurred; a thunderous roar shook the air, while the blast of the explosion nearly knocked them down. "Nothin' wrong with that there ammonal," remarked the Sapper professionally. "'Andy stuff it is too.
A single incident may be taken as a specimen of many. One day as he was passing along the trenches, he overheard a heated altercation between a sapper and a corporal, both belonging to his own corps.
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