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get into prolongation of it to fire down it, or you can "wiggle" it about in many ways, so that it is not straight, or make "traverses" across it, or dig separate trenches for every two or three men. 14. Do not have your trench near rising ground over which you cannot see, and which you cannot hold. 15. Do not huddle all your men together in a small trench like sheep in a pen. Give them air. 16. As once before--cover from sight is often worth more than cover from bullets. For close shooting from a non-concealed trench, _head cover_ with _loopholes_ is an advantage. This should be bullet-proof and not be conspicuously on the top of the parapet, so as to draw fire, or it will be far more dangerous than having none. 17. To surprise the enemy is a great advantage. 18. If you wish to obtain this advantage, _conceal_ your position. Though for promotion it may be sound to advertise your position, for defence it is not. 19. To test the concealment or otherwise of your position, look at it from the enemy's point of view. FIFTH DREAM. "A trifling sum of misery New added to the foot of thy account." DRYDEN. "Jack Frost looked forth one still clear night, And he said, 'Now I shall be out of sight; So over the valley and over the height In silence I'll take my way.'" GOULD. Again I faced the same task with a fresh mind and fresh hopes, all that remained with me of my former attempts being _nineteen_ lessons. Having detailed the two patrols and the guard on Waschout Hill as already described, I spent some twenty minutes--whilst the stores, etc., were being arranged--in walking about to choose a position to hold in the light of my nineteen lessons. I came to the conclusion that it was not any good being near the top of a hill and yet not _at_ the top. I would make my post on the top of Waschout Hill, where I could not be overlooked from any place within rifle-range, and where I should, I believed, have "command." I was not quite certain what "command" meant, but I knew it was important--it says so in the book; besides, in all the manoeuvres I had attended and tactical schemes I had seen, the "defence" always held a position on top of a hill or ridge. My duty was plain: Waschout Hill seemed the only place which did not contravene any of the nineteen lessons I had learnt, and up it I walked. As I stood near one of the huts
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