. Besieged by the Boers; a diary of life and events in Kimberley during the siege . w water supply when our proper supply wascut off, he made the shells for our guns to use,and it was he who manufactured Long Cecil,actually having to make for himself many ofthe necessary tools for the rifling. In manyother minor ways he had helped the militaryto worry the Boers. He was an American, and just as smart asthey make them even in America, and was afirst-rate fellow into the bargain. He had hadseveral narrow shaves with the shells, but thisday it seemed as if he were somehow singledout. Coming away f
. Besieged by the Boers; a diary of life and events in Kimberley during the siege . w water supply when our proper supply wascut off, he made the shells for our guns to use,and it was he who manufactured Long Cecil,actually having to make for himself many ofthe necessary tools for the rifling. In manyother minor ways he had helped the militaryto worry the Boers. He was an American, and just as smart asthey make them even in America, and was afirst-rate fellow into the bargain. He had hadseveral narrow shaves with the shells, but thisday it seemed as if he were somehow singledout. Coming away from the machine shops athalf past five, a shell very nearly got him, andthen he came to the hotel for dinner. His roomwas on the top floor, and the hotel was directlyin the big guns line of fire when it was aimedat the town-hall, so it was really not a safeplace at all. Labram stayed downstairs in the hotel tillthe firing seemed to have ceased and then hewent up to wash before dinner. In these fewmoments a final shell came along and killedhim. He was shockingly crushed; the only. OUR SHELTER — EAST SIDE.
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