[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.")
SIR,—Your article in last week's issue on the above subject reminds me very forcibly of a certain "field day" in which I partook a few weeks ago. Our battalion entrained for a place twenty miles or so from headquarters, and on our arrival two companies were deputed to take up a defensive position about two miles away on a certain hill within a given time. The officer in command of the defence was armed with a one-inch-to-a-mile Ordnance map, and after marching over a mile with the aid of the map, and the hill not appearing in sight, we called to our assistance a "local guide," who soon put us on to our right course, and we arrived safely at the objective within the prescribed time. You, Sir, can imagine the chagrin of some of us when on reaching our goal we recognised some local inhabitants, chiefly of the fair sex, who had accompanied us part of the way—it was a Bank holiday—already awaiting us 1 I hope this will meet the eye of the Telegraph's critic.—I am, Sir, &c., G. T. W.
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