id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 16603 Nevinson, Henry Woodd Ladysmith: The Diary of a Siege .txt text/plain 62519 4044 84 guns, which the Boers had posted on a hill about 2,500 yards beyond the officers were killed and wounded there, and next day the killed men lay gun on the kopje close to the Newcastle road, a shell came right night before from the Boer camp behind "Long Tom." He had been ill with In the Boer camp behind Pepworth Hill he had seen the men Suddenly the Boer guns began firing from Surprise Both yesterday and to-day the Boers on Bulwan spent much time and money The great event of the day was the firing of the new "Long Tom." The The Boer guns fired now and then, but did little damage. the hill where many Boers spend the night, probably to protect the gun. day, the Bulwan gun firing right over Convent Hill and plunging shells No shells were bursting on it to-day, and the sound of guns ./cache/16603.txt ./txt/16603.txt