Smith: We can see the enemy from here, but he can see us better than we can see him, and can hit us easier than we can hit him.
Captain: Jones, can you choose a better place, either to the front or rear of where we are now standing?
Jones: I would choose a position along that row of bushes, about fifty yards to the front.
Captain: Why?
Jones: Because, etc., etc.
Twenty minutes' instruction in this manner, after a lecture, will firmly fix in the brains of the men the principles explained in the lecture.
It is a good plan to repeat the salient points of the lecture in the questions, as was done in the first question asked above, or to do so in some other way.
If a man can not give an answer, or choose a suitable place, explain the requirements again and help him to use his common sense.
2d Method. By practicing the men on the ground in the subject about which the talk or lecture was delivered.
3d Method. This may be called the ocular demonstration method, which consists in having a part of the company go through the exercise or drill, while the rest of the company observes what is being done. This method is illustrated by the following example: