Nearly a third of her army had been killed or wounded in the battle, and yet they retired in good order, showing the desperate valor of these sons of hers.
The double army which had saved itself, but which had yet been unable to destroy its enemy, slept that night in the recovered camp.

The generals discussed in subdued tones their narrow escape, and the soldiers, who now understood very well what had happened, talked of it in the same way.
"We knew that it was going to be a big war," said Dick, "but it's going to be far bigger than we thought." "And we won't make that easy parade down to the Gulf," said Warner.

"I'm thinking that a lot of lions are in the path." "But we'll win!" said Dick.

"In the end we'll surely win!" Then after dreaming a little with his eyes open he fell asleep, gathering new strength for mighty campaigns yet to come.
Appendix: Transcription notes: This etext was transcribed from a volume of the 22nd printing The following modifications were applied while transcribing the printed book to e-text: chapter 2 - Page 40, para 6, changed comma to period chapter 3 - Page 59, para 3, fixed mis-printed quotation mark chapter 4 - Page 73, para 6, fixed typo ("thy") - Page 74, para 1, add missing end-quote chapter 5 - Page 95, para 3, add missing end-quote - Page 102, para 5, add missing comma chapter 6 - Page 118, para 3, fixed typo ("lenghening") - Page 119, para 6, fixed typo ("untils") - Page 120, para 3, fixed typo ("alrming") chapter 7 - Page 139, para 4, add missing begin-quote chapter 9 - Page 184, para 2, add missing begin-quote chapter 10 - Page 197, para 7, fixed typo ("Your're") chapter 15 - Page 299, para 2, fixed typo ("genuis") chapter 16 - Page 331, para 2, fixed typo (changed "not" to "nor") Limitations imposed by converting to plain ASCII: - Throughout the printed book, in any quasi-mathematical passages which use the variables "x" and "y", those variable names are presented in italics.

Italics are not available in plain ASCII.
I did not modify: - The printed book sometimes uses the spelling "despatch", other times "dispatch".