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Hills of the Shatemuc

CHAPTER XVIII
11/19

-- I have seen two hundred." "Two hundred duels, Mr.Herder!" "Yes.

-- I have seen four men killed." "Were _you_ ever hurt, Mr.Herder ?" said Rose.
"No -- I never was wounded.

I saw how it was -- that the only thing to do was to excel ozers; so as in ozer things, I did in this." "But how came you, who love men so well, to have so much to do with hurting them, Mr.Herder ?" "You cannot help it, Miss Elisabet'," said the naturalist.
"They fight for _nozing_ -- they fight for _nozing_.

I never asked one, but I have been oblige to fight a good many.

The students make themselves into clubs; and the way is, when two students of different clubs, get in a quarrel, their presidents must fight it out; -- so they meet people in duels that they have never spoken to, nor seen.


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