You can understand that, to a man who spends his life in scouting and vedette duties on the bloody ground which lies between two great armies, there are many chances of strange experiences.

Our nearest vedette posts, right and left, were a hundred yards from methe one on the left being in the woods, that on the right in the open.

Doubtless it was the difficulty of getting pure water that justified the relaxation of discipline which permitted the men to have recourse to this spring in rear of their vedette lines.

I had easily succeeded in passing the vedettes; to avoid the vedette reliefs might not be easy.