DESCRIPTION
A stand-off between a British army officer and a Boer farmer during the First Boer War (1880-81) in South Africa. From “Funny Folks - The Comic Companion to the Newspaper” dated 19th March 1881, published 1874-1894. IT was the first British ‘comic’ paper. The Boer Wars were two wars fought between Great Britain and two independent Boer states - Orange Free State and the Transvaal.