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The Sword of Antietam

CHAPTER II
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When I sleep I don't hear nothin', of course, an' nothin' wakes me up.

I just sleep on, sometimes dreamin' beautiful dreams.

A million men wouldn't wake me, an' mebbe a dozen armies or so have passed in the night while I was sleepin' so good.

I'd tell you anything I know, but them that knows nothin' has nothin' to tell." Warner's temper, although he had always practiced self-control, had begun to rise, but he checked it, seeing that it would be a mere foolish display of weakness in the face of the blank wall that confronted him.
"My friend," he said with gravity, "I judge from the extreme ignorance you display concerning great affairs that you sleep a large part of the time." "Mebbe so, an' mebbe not.

I most gen'ally sleep when I'm sleepy.


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