Surrender!' said the messenger.
But it is not in nature for a postman to give up his postbag without a struggle.

'Never!' cried the valiant postmen.

But shell after shell battered the corrugated-iron buildings about their ears, and it was not possible for them to answer the guns which were smashing the life out of them.

There was no help for it but to surrender.

De Wet added samples of the British volunteer and of the British regular to his bag of militia.
The station and train were burned down, the great-coats looted, the big shells exploded, and the mails burned.