"The Thinking Machine" which contains a number of stories like Sherlock Holmes.
"Criminal Investigation" by Dr. Gross. Edited by J. Adam. (Published by Specialist Press, London.)
CHAPTER III.
WOODCRAFT;
or,
Knowledge of Animals and Nature.
CAMP FIRE YARN.—No. 8.
STALKING.
As an aid to Observation—How to hide yourself—How to learn Stalking—Games—Book on Stalking.
At some manoeuvres lately, two hostile patrols of soldiers were approaching, looking for each other, till the ground between them became very open, and it seemed hopeless for a scout to cross it without being seen. However, a small ditch about two feet deep and overgrown with bushes ran across part of the open plain from the point where one patrol was lying hidden. They noticed two calves which came out on to the plain from the opposite side and walked across the open till they got to the end of this ditch, and here they stopped and separated and began browsing.
A scout now started to make use of this ditch by crawling along it till he should get to the far end near the calves, and there he hoped to find some way of getting on further, or of at least peeping out and getting a nearer view of the possible position of the enemy. When about half-way along the ditch he was suddenly fired at by an enemy's scout already there, in the ditch.
When the umpire rode up and asked him how he had got there without being seen, the hostile scout said that finding he could not reach the ditch without being seen if he went across the plain, he seized two calves which he had found among the bushes where his patrol were hiding, and stepping between them, he drove the pair of them, by holding their tails across the open ditch; here he let them go and slid himself into the ditch without being noticed.