We had pitched carap for a week, in ordor to allow the ever-dallying provision convoys to catch up to us; eo, obtaining permission from headquarters,! saddled up and rode out to do A LITTLE SCOUTING ON MY OWN ACCOUNT. For I havo long since learned that its no übo hanging around camp if you want to know anything about tho real life of the folk who dwell in the land. Abaut six miles from our lines I ran against a dainty little farmhouse cuddled up against tho slope of a shrub cororal kopjo. On one side of the dwelling a trellis work of vines broke tho wind, and on tho other a long, double row of orangc treos beautified the scone. Tall, graceful poplar-trees whispered in the wind at both front and rear, while a pretty llower-garden. fragrant with flowors, spread far away in front of the substantial dwelling. I was ad miring ttiene things from my horse's back when it suddonly dawned upon mo that I had possibly played the imbecile iu straying no far from camp. But it was ton late to hong back, If the farmer folk were friendly, I was in luck; for tho inHide of such a dwelling could not be ill-supplied with creature com forts. If, however, they were hostilo, I waß at their mercy, 1 had no desire to match my pony's pace against tho (light of a Mauser bullet; b», humming a Bong and thinking of a psalm, I rode forward as if certain of a kindly welcome. 