no PINK AND SCARLET 



go over in our minds as we walk or jog along, and 

 at the same time take good " stock " of the fences 

 and the country in general, with a view to riding 

 over it. 



Before reaching the top of the hill a second-class 

 road crosses the first-class one we have been going 

 on hitherto, and a doubt arises as to the way. 



Pull out the map, " shoot the linen " of your left 

 wrist, to bring the compass on your wristlet into 

 view, and set the map roughly with it. " Ah! that's 

 it ! " as we thought, the left-hand turn, and then we 

 keep the same general sou'-westerly direction. 



Having a good look at the map, we see that, if we 

 read it rightly, we shall shortly have on our right 

 hand open heath land, and on our left cultivation, 

 with numerous small coverts and a few farms. Haif- 

 a-mile further on we find that we did read correctly, 

 and the unfenced heath opens out on our right. 



It is worth while to pull up just a minute here, 

 and consider what an advanced guard. Cavalry or 

 Infantry (the principle of each is the same, though 

 the one is limited in its power of acting up to it), 

 should do on debouching on to the heath. 



It is very simple, and only requires common- 

 sense, and the sort of argument that " Facey 

 Romford" was wont to use to himself before making 

 his cast after a check. " Francis Romford, if you 

 were the fox, what would you do under these cir- 

 cumstances?" Our argument is — "Is there any- 

 thing near the road which might conceal an 

 enemy ? " The answer is — " Yes, that heather- 



