CHAPTER IV.
_September 30th._ We are still beating our tom-toms like the Chinese, to frighten away the enemy, and our braves still fire off powder at invisible Uhlans.

The Prussians, to our intense disgust, will not condescend even to notice us.

We jeer at them, we revile them, and yet they will not attack us.
What they are doing we cannot understand.

They appear to have withdrawn from the advanced positions which they held.

We know that they are in the habit of making war in a thoroughly ungentlemanly manner, and we cannot make up our minds whether our "attitude" is causing them to hesitate, or whether they are not devising some new trick to take us by surprise.