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"We reach the hill. Behold a signaler. He waves his flag, evident!}' 

 sending a message to his commander in rear, reporting onr advance. He 

 is gone, our excitement grows to a tremendous pitch. There he is again ! 

 Ping, ping, ping; he's do^^^l. But, alas, it is not the rifle that had done 

 it, but the man in a protecting pit who has worked the life-like dummy. 



Fig. 5. — The signaler. 



Fig. 6.— The dummy cavalry— note the ropes which keep the figures straight. 



We advance continuously. Five hundred yards ahead there is a house— 

 a Boer inn. We intend to capture it, but we are not there vet. We have 



