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The Soldier Boy; or, Tom Somers in the Army

CHAPTER XIX
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I didn't sleep any last night." "I'm agreed," replied Joe, who seemed to be indifferent to every thing while he could keep out of the rebel army.
Tom coiled up his body in the softest place he could find, and went to sleep.

Exhausted by fatigue and the want of rest, he did not wake for many hours.

He came to his senses with a start, and jumped upon his feet.

For a moment, he could not think where he was; but then came the recollection that he was in the country of his enemies--a wanderer and a fugitive.
He looked about him in search of his travelling companion; but the fact that he could not see him in the night was no argument that he was not near him.

He supposed Joe had chosen a place to sleep in the vicinity, and thinking he might not wake in season to pass through the Gap before daylight, he commenced a search for him.


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