=_SCOTSMAN._=--'The war literature now includes books of all sorts; but
there is nothing in it more racy or readable than this collection of
letters, what may be called familiar letters to the general public....
In spite of its subject, there is more fun than anything else in the
book.... But a deeper interest is not lacking to the book, either in its
animated descriptions of serious affairs or in the substantial gravity
which a discerning reader will see between the lines of voluble and
entertaining talk.'

=_CHRONICLE.=_--'Our Yeoman is a droll fellow, a facetious dog, whether
with pen or sketching pencil, and we laughed heartily at many of his
japes and roughly-drawn sketches.'

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[Illustration: CORPL. P. T. ROSS.]

A YEOMAN'S LETTERS

by

P. T. ROSS

(_Late Corporal 69th Sussex Company I.Y._)

Illustrated by the Author.

"And you, good Yeomen,
Whose limbs were made in England, show us here
The mettle of your pasture; let us swear
That you are worth your breeding; which I doubt not."

_Shakespeare._

Third Edition.

London:
Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton,
Kent & Co., Limited.
1901.

Printed by Burfield & Pennells,
Hastings.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

FOREWORD.
The Sussex Yeomanry.

PART 1.
On the Trek.

WITH ROBERTS.
The Occupation of Johannesburg.
Pretoria Taken.
Diamond Hill and After.
Back to Pretoria.
Entertaining a Guest.
The Mails Arrive.
The Nitral's Nek Disaster.

WITH MAHON.
A General Advance to Balmoral and Back.
To Rustenburg.
Ambushed.
Heavy Work for the Recording Angel.
Relief of Eland's River Garrison. Join in the great De Wet hunt.
After De Wet.
The Yeoman, the Argentine and the Farrier-Sergeant.
Commandeering by Order.

WITH CLEMENTS.
Cattle Lifting.
Delarey gives us a Field Day.
Burnt to Death.
The Infection of Spring again.
Death of Lieutenant Stanley.
His Burial.
Promoted to Full Corporal.
Petty Annoyances--The Nigger.
A Wet Night.
The Great Egg Trick.
Our Friend "Nobby."
"The Roughs" leave us for Pretoria.
The breaking up of the Composite Squadron.
Life on a Kopje.
Death and Burial of Captain Hodge.
Camp Life at