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Updated: June 5, 2025
An occasional shell from the big gun plumped among them. One, through some freak of gunnery, lobbed slowly through a division, and the men whooped and threw their caps at it as it passed. The guns on Swartz Kop, at a range of nearly five miles, tossed shells at the monster on Doornkloof, and finally blew up his powder magazine amid the applause of the infantry.
However, they did not all get away, and when Serjt Marston lobbed his bombs on to them from behind and the others came up in front, they found five Germans still sitting there with their gun. These were promptly captured and sent down, and the town was now entirely in our hands.
This house was being bombarded. I counted the report of six different machine guns which played on it. Rifles innumerable and from every sort of place were potting its windows, and at intervals of about half a minute the shells from a heavy gun lobbed in through its windows or thumped mightily against its walls.
The Krupp bellowed from the enemy's north position, and cleverly lobbed a seven-pound shell not far behind that rapidly-moving, distant pillar of dust, the nucleus of which was a little troop of cantering Irregulars, and not far in front of the lower, slower-moving cloud, the heart of which was a little knot of tramping Town Guardsmen.
"Shut up, Bubbles. You aren't in court," Jimmy replied. "This needs delicacy. Giuseppe says " "Interest the monkey," the brown engineer interrupted. "He won't climb for love. Cut up to the house and get some biscuits, Bubbles sugar ones and an orange or two. No need to tell our womenfolk." The huge white figure lobbed off at a trot which would not have disgraced a boy of seventeen.
Every here and there where a shell had lobbed fairly in there was a huge crater, its sides sealing up the trench with a mass of tumbled earth over which the men scrambled crouching.
He now coiled again, and rattled most furiously, thus indicating his extreme wrath at being attacked: the bite of this reptile is most venomous when he is most enraged. I took up a flat stone, about six inches square, and lobbed it on his coil. He suddenly darted out towards me; but, as I had anticipated, he was encumbered with the stone. I now advanced, and struck him on the head with my stick.
Fannie was eighteen and Nellie but little more than sixteen. He was their first Prince. "Whee-ee!" shrilled Mrs. King, going madly after a return that her opponent had lobbed over the net. She missed. "Deuce," said her husband laconically. A servant was crossing the lawn with a tray of iced drinks.
On the following day and for a few days afterwards the howitzers lobbed shells upon the fleet, and the Pobieda, Poltava, Retvisan, and Peresviet were all struck, and their crews driven out of them, after which they were moved to the East harbour, where they were hidden from the sight of our gunners by the intervening high ground.
"Asiatic Annie!" we both said, at once and in unison. For all of us knew the evil reputation of Asiatic Annie that large gun, safely tucked away in the blue hills of Asia, who lobbed her shells a seven-mile throw over the Straits on to the shores of Cape Helles a mischievous old lady, who delighted in being the plague of the Beaches.
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