CHAPTER XII 



the battle 



Gone awaw-o-y ! 



The picquets are in ! 



What is the first thing necessary in both cases ? 

 Decision. 



And the second ? Action. 



One is no good without the other ; and without 

 either we are lost. Surely he who learns to 

 cultivate both at his play, is more than likely to 

 be able to apply them when he wants them in his 

 work ? 



Our business just now is to get a start in the 

 Image, as it would be to take the initiative in the 

 Real. 



We must decide on the instant what is the best 

 way to do it. To join the desperately-excited, 

 jostling, "look-outing," and mud-scattering-crowd, 

 which is tearing down the ride like a flock of 

 frightened sheep charging for a gap, and which, 

 like the sheep in the gap, must inevitably become 

 jammed in the gateway at the end of it ? Or to 

 follow the fast-disappearing Huntsman through the 

 still quivering scrub, which has already closed up 



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