PAGE "A Hot Time!" 2 "A Camp Sing-Song" 7 "The Great Small Game Quest(ion)" 9 "The Mealie and Oat Fatigue" 23 "Stable Guard" 31 "A Terrible Reckoning" 44 "Some of the Pomp and Circumstance of Glorious War" 52 "A New Rig-out" 58 "Oliver Twist on the Veldt" 65 "Hate" 68 "Mails Up" 87 "I'kona" 89 "Nobby" 94 "Consolation" 112 "On Pass" 114 "A Peep at Our Domestic Life" 118 "Hymns and their Singers" 129 "A Friendly Boer Family" 141 "Well, it's the best Oi can do for yez" 144 "Sick" and "Who said C.I.V.'s?" 148 "Got His Ticket" 153 "The Thoughtless Sister" 156 "God Save the King" 159 "Tommy's Spittoon" 171 FOREWORD. "More khaki," sniffed a bored but charming lady, as she glanced at a picture of the poor Yeomanry at Lindley, and then hastily turned away to something of greater interest. I overheard the foregoing at the Royal Academy, soon after my return from South Africa, last May, and thanked the Fates that I was in mufti. It was to a certain extent indicative of the jaded interest with which the War is now being followed by a large proportion of the public at home, the majority of whom, I presume, have no near or dear ones concerned in the affair; a public which cheered itself hoarse and generally made "a hass" of itself many months ago in welcoming certain warriors whose period of active service had been somewhat short. I wonder how the veterans of the Natal campaign, the gallant Irish Brigade, and others, will be received when they return? "Come back from the War! What War?" And yet in spite of this apathy, "War Books" keep appearing, and here is a simple Yeoman thrusting yet another on the British Public. Still 'twere worse than folly to apologise, for _qui s'excuse, s'accuse_.