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Dick Prescott’s Third Year at West Point

CHAPTER XXI
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"You'll have lots of chance to pull through in the general review." "It's only the physical side of the case that gives me any uneasiness," replied Dick.

"And I'm not worrying about that, either." "I should say not, suh!" replied the Virginian with emphasis.
"I had a chance to talk with Captain Goodwin, one day, without being too fresh, and he told me, old ramrod, that your work in athletics did a lot to save your back from faring worse.

He said you were built with unusual strength in the back, and that many a hard tug in the football scrimmages had made you strong where you most need to be strong now." "Now let's get back to work with our old ramrod, Anstey," cautioned Greg.
"Surely, suh, with all my heart," nodded Anstey.

"But by day after to-morrow he'll have caught up with us, and be coaching us along for the general review." The hard work that Dick had done through March and in early April now stood him in excellent stead.

He had, really, only to make sure of the work that he had missed while at hospital.


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