I can take some of my boys with me, and camp by the water side.

I can easily go into Pensacola and find out what is going on there.

I shouldn't wish to be a spy, general, but this is scarcely that, I think.

The enemy has been received by a power professing to be friendly.

That power has given us no notice of hostility, and until that is done I see no impropriety in going into his territory for information not about his affairs at all, unless he is proving treacherous, which would entitle us to do that, but about those of our enemy, whom he should regard as an invader, however he may regard him in fact." "You've read some law, I see," said the general.
"No sir," replied Sam, blushing to think how he had been expounding to the general, a nice point which that officer must understand much better than he did.