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". Also, both "intrenchments" and "entrenchments".

- Chapter 12, page 245, "grewsome"

- There are a number of instances where the use of the comma in the
printed book seems to me inappropriate, mainly in terms of commas
inserted where I would not insert them, and also sometimes co