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The Kopje Garrison, by George Manville Fenn
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Title: The Kopje Garrison A Story of the Boer War
Author: George Manville Fenn
Illustrator: W. Boucher
Release Date: January 26, 2009 [EBook #27897]
Language: English
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The Kopje Garrison, by George Manville Fenn.
CHAPTER ONE.
HOW DREW LENNOX AND BOB DICKENSON WENT A-FISHING.
They did not look like fishermen, those two young men in khaki, for people do not generally go fishing with magazine-rifles instead of fishing-rods--certainly not in England. But this was in South Africa, and that makes all the difference. In addition, they were fishing in a South African river, where both of them were in profound ignorance as to what might take their bait first; and they were talking about this when they first reached the bank and saw the swift river flowing onward--a lovely river whose banks were like cliffs, consequent upon ages of the swift stream cutting its way downward through the soft earth, while here and there clumps of trees grew luxuriantly green, and refreshed the eyes of the lookers-on after a couple of months spent in riding over the drab and d