other post with it. A distant yell of triumph came through the air.

The gates fell partly across the trench. "Now, lads, push them back a bit
if you can; if not, knock the part over the ditch to pieces; it's half-
smashed already."

It was easier to knock the gate, already splintered with shot, to pieces,
than to remove it.

"Now, Dunlop, fetch one of those powder-bags we brought for blowing up the
gates; put it in the trench, with a long train. You attend to the train,
and when I give the word, fire it. Bring up those two big pots of boiling
water to the gate-towers. Captain Kent, thirty men of your troop will hold
the other three walls; but if you hear my dog-whistle, every man is to
leave his post and come on here at a run. Thirty men more will man this
front wall and towers. They are to direct their fire to check the crowd
pushing forward behind those immediately assaulting. The remaining forty
will fire through the loopholes as long as possible, and will then form
round the breastwork and hold it to the last. One man in each gate-tower,
when the enemy reach the gate, will lay down his carbine, and attend to
the boiling water. Let them each have a small pot as a ladle. But let them
throw the water on those pressing toward the gate, not on those who have
reached it. Those are our affair."

In five minutes every man was at his post, and a sharp fire from the
seventy men along the front wall opened upon the masses of the enemy, who
came swarming toward the gate. The effect on the crowd, many thousand
strong, was very severe, for each shot told; but the Mussulmen of Oude are
courageous, and the rush toward the gate continued. Fast as those in front
fell, the gaps were imperceptible in the swarming crowd. Major Warreners