CHAPTEE XY. 



PAT MOLLOY MORRIS BROKEN DOWN. 



Hendrick's Splendid Shot An Amusing Chase Unearthing a Ratel Search 

 for " Vater " A Comical but Inhospitable Old Woman " Is it Water ye 

 mane ? " A Drop of the CrathurMy Talk with Pat " A Great Day for 

 Ireland intirely " Mrs. Molloy Our Dissel-boom comes to Grief Boers 

 " Flitting " The Head of the Procession Ostriches not such Fools as they 

 Look Ostriches on the Offensive How to Capture Them The Vaal River 

 Making a Dissel-boom In the Transvaal at Last Charon A Dear 

 Bottle of Brandy Getting the Cattle over the River Poonah and his 

 Little Tricks Morris's Dislike to him Potschefstrom Imp absquatulates 

 A Queer Set of Physicians Morris has to Return Home for his Health 

 Farewell Alone. 



HENDRICK possesses a very old double rifle, about 

 sixteen-bore, although it shows the ravages of time and 

 neglect, yet any one experienced in firearms can see 

 at a glance that it has been once a splendid weapon. 

 It bears the name of Purdey no bad guarantee for a 

 gun forty years ago. With this antiquated specimen 

 of firearms he made a splendid shot this morning. The 

 road, which here is straight and running due north, 

 has on the left three bluffs projecting into the velt 

 at a distance of 500 yards from the track. There were 

 some spring-buck feeding, not all together, but scat- 

 tered ; he selected the nearest, and at a range of 400 

 yards bowled it over dead. Goran are here also very 

 abundant, and with little trouble a heavy bag of them 

 could be made. 



The monotony of our journey was broken by a most 

 amusing chase. The old pointer, who had struck the 



