_our_ hero!"
said he.

"I think," he went on, when the hurrahing had died down, "that two hero
stories are almost too many for one evening; besides you've got a chance
to know a live hero. I am sure no boy of Oakwood will ever again fail to
recognize the real article in the hero line, when he sees it.
Good-night!"

Since that evening G. W.'s only battles have been with his school-books.
And but for the manly help of his honest school-mates, the far-off
victory would seem even dimmer than it does to George Washington
McKinley Jones.

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