"Oh, I don't know," he remarked with dignity; "I don't know.

I s'pose I'll do as well as the rest.

I'm going to try like thunder." He evidently complimented himself upon the modesty of this statement.
"How do you know you won't run when the time comes ?" asked the youth.
"Run ?" said the loud one; "run ?--of course not!" He laughed.
"Well," continued the youth, "lots of good-a-'nough men have thought they was going to do great things before the fight, but when the time come they skedaddled." "Oh, that's all true, I s'pose," replied the other; "but I'm not going to skedaddle.

The man that bets on my running will lose his money, that's all." He nodded confidently.
"Oh, shucks!" said the youth.

"You ain't the bravest man in the world, are you ?" "No, I ain't," exclaimed the loud soldier indignantly; "and I didn't say I was the bravest man in the world, neither.