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Rh With a shaggy bearded quota

On commando at his order,

He went off with Louis Botha

Trekking for the British border.

When Natal was first invaded

He was fighting night and day,

Then he scouted and he raided,

With De Wet and Delaney.

Till he had a brush with Plumer,

Got a bullet in his arm,

And returned in sullen humour

To the shelter of his farm.

Now it happened that the Devons,

Moving up in that direction,

Sent their Colour-Sergeant Evans

Foraging with half a section.