One evening, as soon as darkness had fallen, I bade a sorrowful farewell to my people, and set off for Jaffa, traveling only by night and taking out-of-the-way paths to avoid the pickets, for now that the locust campaign was over, my boyouroulton was useless.

So in the early hours their pickets came running in, all mixed up with German Askaris, and the ring of rifle and machine-gun fire told them that their time had come.

Drowsy sentries failed to hear the rustling in the thicket until almost too late; the alarm is given, pickets run in to wake their sleeping "bwona," all mixed up with Germans.

The French and savages made an assault on us, about an hour earlier than this, and our two fathers rushed to the pickets to repel itI was a reckless boy, anxious even at that tender age to see a fray, and was at their side.

Although the driver addressed himself to their flanks, between each puff of smoke, with a pointed stick, they didn't rear and plunge so as to frighten the ladies, and that was a point gained, albeit we had leisure to count the pickets in the fences as we dragged toward our destination.

Reaching Virgin Bay some time after dark, we found the report of an enemy there untrue; but the pickets were got out in remarkable haste, and all the native populationsome dozen women and childrenwere seized, to prevent discovery of us to the enemy, and I suppose there was some expectation of an attack.

Our company, or part of it,for most had been placed about on pickets when the attack failed,after a while fell farther back, turned the corner before mentioned, faced about, and came to a stand in the street, with an adobe house on the left.

Minié-balls whizzed about in the air or knocked up the dust from the street, and firing was now and then heard near by in uncertain directions, where perhaps the enemy were vexing our pickets.

Yet I laugh at this when I remember how they crept snake-like in the bushes, and tried to pick us off at the doors, and how they strove, without much danger to themselves, to run our pickets in on us, and get to see our backs turned, whereupon, doubtless, humanity would have been little thought of, and filibuster blood cheap enough.

The pickets were now all brought in hastily, and the detachment began its march, leaving, I remember, one stark form propped against the church wall, with staring eyeballs fixed, and soul wandered somewhither.

Poles are planted at the head and the foot, upon which flags are placed; the grave is then inclosed by pickets driven in the ground.

The worried Dutch pickets honored the signature of Souten and with one step I was over the border into Belgium, now under German jurisdiction.

When I was near Namur with the rear-guard of the French Dragoons and Cuirassiers, and they threw out pickets, we could distinguish them against the yellow wheat or green corse at half a mile, while these men passing in the street, when they have reached the next crossing, become merged into the gray of the paving-stones and the earth swallowed them.

Some of these amateur pickets were girls fresh from college, and among these were Elsie Cole, the brilliant daughter of Albany's Superintendent of Schools, Inez Milholland, the beautiful and cherished daughter of a millionaire father, leader of her class, of 1909, in Vassar College, Elizabeth Dutcher and Violet Pike, both prominent in the Association of Collegiate Alumnae.

It shows us nothing but the country, with the positions of a few batteries and pickets that can be plainly seen from our lines.

Before midnight one of General Morell's orderlies had passed me through our cavalry pickets beyond Mechanicsville.

Our pickets were supposed to be on the edge of the hills behind me.

I reasoned that the pickets were not in the swamp, but on the edge of the hills.

At what moment should I strike the line of Confederate pickets?

Could I hope to remain long between vedettes and pickets? Impossible.

Once in rear of the Confederate pickets, I should have little or no trouble in remaining for days in the camps and in the main lines; getting through was the difficulty.

The pickets would see that I was a Confederate.

He had gone down into this gully, which, I was now confident, separated by its width the pickets of different commands.

The pickets were lying down, probably, half of them asleep, the other half awake but at ease, I was wishing my leader would speak again.

I judged that the company was some regiment's picket for the next twenty-four hours; they were going to relieve the last night's pickets.