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it good. Comfortable room for an Infantry division, 

 a Cavalry brigade, or the Corps troops ; ^ while that 

 smaller field up there, with a large gate on to the 

 road at each end of it, would make an excellent 

 place for the supply depot. 



Now we begin to ascend the rise from the top 

 of which we should be able to see our rendezvous, 

 /. e. the meet. Have we taught ourselves anything 

 sportingly or professionally during the march } 



If we have had in our minds during the march 

 even one thought in connection with each, on the 

 lines indicated in the last two chapters, the answer 

 is — yes ; and if so, the ink used in the writing of the 

 chapters will not have been expended in vain. 



1 Theoretically each of these should be able to camp on about 

 forty acres, but practically, when irregularly shaped and perhaps 

 uneven fields have to be used, fifty or sixty acres are required for 

 comfort. The Cavalry brigade can use the smallest ground of 

 the three. 



