A Happy Hunting-Ground for the Kaffirs : A the Officers' Mess, Hyde Farm, Ladysmith. 1900.

For Sale is a Full Page removed from "The Graphic, July 28th, 1900," showing a Drawing by Sydney P. Hall, from photographs by a British Officer, for "A Happy Hunting Ground for the Kaffirs :  At the Officers' Mess, Hyde Farm, Ladysmith."

A Correspondent writes :- "That most holy place, the mess,, is a square patch of shadow cast by a tarpaulin stretched between two waggons, so that the mess is not stationary-we follow the sun.  In one corner of the shadow site S-, also writing opposite me, and all round us are the flies.  With the first frost these disappear, and with these the fever.   Ten yards off is the dusthole where odds and ends, empty jam tins, bits of bread, &c., are thrown - a happy hunting-ground for the Kaffirs in the neighbourhood.  At this moment, with many furtive glances at us, some of them are making a stealthy luncheon.  They come chiefly to carry away what they can get, and bring meat tins for the purpose, but to-day there is something especially good, and, greatly daring, they are gobbling up all sorts of filth."

Condition is Very Good.