But he flies at higher game." Here the Major lightly tapped his chest to indicate the quarry.

"In generalship, my dear doctor, to achieve anything like the highest success, you must fight with two heads--your own and your adversary's.

By putting myself in Smellie's place; by descending (if I may so say) into the depths of his animal intelligence, by interpreting his hopes, his ambitions.

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