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• Again and again the surprise was effected, not by the nation of hunters, but by those rooineks whose want of cunning and of veld-craft had for so long been a subject of derision and merriment.
• So soon as the new Heerendorp was ready for occupation, Jacob took a large knife and cut seventeen notches in the doorpost.
• “What is that for, Jacob?” asked his wife.
• “They are reminders of the Britishers I have shot.”
• “Well,” said she, “if I hadn't killed more Rooineks than that, I'd be ashamed of myself.”
• 'My father was at Bronkhurst Spruit,' he continued. 'How they shot the rooineks down that day! Our men lay in the long grass, while the redcoats stood in line on the road, and they shot them like rabbits. The fools! Their guns were in the carts.'