How did you get to that landing-stage where I found you ?' 'It was a hard journey,' he said meditatively.

'It was not easy to get beyond the barbed-wire entanglements which surrounded Neuburg--yes, even across the river.

But in time I reached the woods and was safe, for I did not think any German could equal me in wild country.

The best of them, even their foresters, are but babes in veldcraft compared with such as me ...

My troubles came only from hunger and cold.