To front and left they went gaily on, but they failed.
At their approach the rocks we had so persistently shelled, crackled and hammered from end to end with rifle fire.

The Boers had hidden behind the ridge, and now crept back again.

Perhaps no infantry could have taken that position only from the front.

I watched the Volunteers advance upon it in extended lines across a long green slope studded with ant-hills.

I could see the puffs of dust where bullets fell thick round their feet.