SPORT IN WAR 



part of the operations, of the cut- 

 and-dried order of tactics. There 

 was no drawing up of opposing 

 forces in battle-array, or majestic ad- 

 vancing of earth-shaking squadrons 

 to the clash of arms ; but you had to 

 approach a koppie or peak of piled- 

 up granite boulders, where not an 

 enemy was visible, but which you 

 knew was honeycombed with caves 

 and crannies all full of watching 

 niggers fingering guns of every kind 

 and calibre. You were expected to 

 climb up this loopholed pyramid to 

 gain the entrance to its caves, which 

 was somewhere near the top, as a 

 rule, and if you were lucky enough 

 to escape an elephant bullet from one 

 side or another, or a charge of slugs 

 from a crevice underfoot, you had 



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