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they can have no soldiers They will be obliged to give up"

Words were in my heart, but my lips knew better than to speak

them Had they no officers? Had Christian no soldiers under

him? My head was ready to believe it; ht too I had seen at the North the stuff that soldiers

are made of

"If I were you," said my mother, "I would not let it all be

over before I had a part in it"

"The war is not ended yet, Felicia," my father remarked; "and

it will take ive

up"

"They have had nothing but hard knocks, sir, since it began,"

Ransom cried

"Your father always takes a ," my

mother said "If it depended on him, I believe there would be

no war"

"I should have one other vote for peace," papa said, looking

at me

"It is well Daisy was not born a boy!" Ransom said

"I hope you will not irl,"

th is no entle"