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"It'll do to brush my own shoes," he said. "Who knows but I may have to come back to it again?" "No danger," said Dick; "I'll take care of the feet, and you'll have to look after the heads, now you're in a hat-store." "I wish you had a place too," said Fosdick. "I don't know enough yet," said Dick. "Wait till I've gradooated." "And can put A.B. after your name." "What's that?"
"The lieutenant was a kid, just gradooated one of the kind that thinks it's glorious to get killed and read about it in the papers. He led his men into the simple quiet of our camp, crouched and tur'ble, a gun in each hand . . . and there was the United States army and there was the sleepin' Percy, face to face! "'What . . . ! says the lieutenant, falling back ten foot.
Haow them young 'uns dew grow! Las' time I see that kid, he wa' n't knee-high tew a grasshopper. "Waal, I says tew 'em, I says: 'Want ter drop a passenger at Twin Coves? 'Yes, yes, they says. 'Jump in. An' so, Sam'I, I gradooated from yer school o' hardenin' on top a ton o' squirmin' fish, more er less.
Most of us was weaned some earlier than the day before yisterday. We gradooated from the tenderfoot class some time back, and it's up to us to prove it." He paused and looked around him earnestly for a moment; then, as his audience remained silent, he went on: "I'm older'n you men, an' I've lived a heap in my time.
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