me to hold my pony while I took the photographs that accompany this
article, and I listened with great interest to his accounts of the
battle. Finally he made a statement that was correct. "How did you
happen to get that right?" I asked.

"Yesterday," he said, "I guided Colonel Hayes here, and while I
guided him he explained it to me."




THE SOUTH AFRICAN WAR




I--WITH BULLER'S COLUMN



"Were you the station-master here before this?" I asked the man in
the straw hat, at Colenso. "I mean before this war?"

"No fear!" snorted the station-master, scornfully. "Why, we didn't
know Colenso was on the line until Buller fought a battle here.
That's how it is with all these way-stations now. Everybody's
talking about them. We never took no notice to them."

And yet the arriving stranger might have been forgiven his point of
view and his start of surprise when he found Chieveley a place of