He won't go up here with us to try and dislodge them, but will try, I expect, to lure them down into the open somewhere, so as to give us a chance at them." "They'll be too cunning," I said.

"They fight only from behind stones, and in holes." "Yes, they're cunning enough," said Denham; "but, like all over-clever people, they make mistakes, or find others quite as cunning.

Look here: you'll have to propose some dodge to the Colonel to coax them out to give us a chance." "I propose a plan to the Colonel ?" "Yes.

Why not ?" said Denham, laughing.

"You've begun your soldiering by teaching me, and--Oh!" He uttered a sharp cry, and clapped his right hand round to his back.
"What is it ?" I said excitedly.