Show COULD NOT liOT BE lilT HIT Little Jimmy Jimimy Blunts Escape Prom From ladysmith One of the moat most teaching t incidents I of the war cam came to my uy just as I was leaving for America said Aid a missionary ml delegate dele te from South Africa to the ecumenical conference Of course there have been many brave de s and many acts of ot on both sides but none has seemed to me so 50 affecting as that I of the little lad who gave his life protecting the man maD who had befriended him It was during the siege of Lady Ladysmith LadYsmIth Ladysmith smith and the British army had its t base at camp perhaps I II I should say General base was wasat Wk at camp when one even evening evening evenIng ing a little boy struggled into camp and III when questioned by the soldiers said he had bad come from Ladysmith He was of English parentage and said that his father had b ben en killed at the very be beginning beginning beginning ginning of the hostilities his mother had been buried burled the week before and he had left Ladysmith determined to tok k join the English army How he had hd managed to slip sUp through the Boer lines was vas the question which most puzzled the English soldiers for at that time it was not thought possible for a bird bIr birdi i to pass lass unnoticed so s strict was wa w their ther watch This child said sid he thought he had been ben shot at but he must mURt have jave ove been too little to be b hit hitHe hIt hitHe He was wa such a slip sUp of oC ofa oCa ofa a child that the soldiers recognizing the truth of his surmise furis dubbed him Blunt his real reel name being Jimmy Blunt Blunt He knocked knocke about camp ct and finally attached him himself himself himself self to Major ajor English of the Second Dublin Fusiliers He became bame the te ma majors ma jors jars shadow eating sleeping and ad moving moving moving ing about abut with wih him on any and all al oc Ge occasions 0 It I became eme a joke amour the soldiers soldie the way followed tie the t c major Finally came the action aton of Venters when the major leaving his company walked a a short distance ahead to see se bow how the land lay He Hewa was wa shot down dow and a deadly dealy fire fre from r the Boers Boer who had been ben in ambush followed The firing frIng was w so 9 hot that no attempt was wa made by the soldiers to go to their ter officer and when they saw sw g making making the attempt he was wa wa ordered orere back He did I not obey oby the command that tat much the soldiers knew but he h was wa forgotten until the close clo of the engagement when on collecting their wounded and dead they found he h had managed mane in some someway someway someway way way to drag his wounded friend from fron the oi open en to the cover or some brush brushwood brushwood wood wod was wa lying by the majors mars side aide apparently asleep but when the tle soldiers lifted him up they the found that he ha was dead ded He had ha bled ble to death from a wound in the fleshy part pt of the arm So S after all 1 he was WI not too to little to be b hit hit |