I haven't seen a soul stirring.

Come on! Let's have a good drink of water and a feed, and by that time we ought to be ready to start." "We ought to cross the Vaal before morning," said West.
"I doubt it," was the reply, "for it will be rather a job, as we shall find the enemy about there.

If we get across to-morrow night we shall have done well." "But we shall never get to Mafeking like this." "It's going to be a harder task than you thought for when you volunteered so lightly, my dear boy; but we've undertaken to do it, and do it we will.

It isn't a work of hours nor days.

It may take us weeks.