pass the enemy’s lines...Thoreau's Journal: 19-Jun-1852

It requires considerable skill in crossing a country to avoid the houses and too cultivated parts,—somewhat of the engineer’s or gunner’s skill, —so as to pass a house, if you must go near it through high grass, —pass the enemy’s lines where houses are thick, —as to make a hill or wood screen you, —to shut every window with an apple tree. For that route which most avoids the houses is not only