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The Red Badge of Courage

CHAPTER XVI
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It's our luck t' git licked often," said his friend in a weary tone.

He was trudging along with stooped shoulders and shifting eyes like a man who has been caned and kicked.
"Well, don't we fight like the devil?
Don't we do all that men can ?" demanded the youth loudly.
He was secretly dumfounded at this sentiment when it came from his lips.

For a moment his face lost its valor and he looked guiltily about him.

But no one questioned his right to deal in such words, and presently he recovered his air of courage.

He went on to repeat a statement he had heard going from group to group at the camp that morning.


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