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The Red Badge of Courage

By Stephen Crane

Ultra-Condensed by Samuel Stoddard


The Young Soldier
I want to be a hero, but I'm scared.
(He gets hit in the head.)

Now I am marked a hero, but I don't deserve it.
(He becomes a hero.)

Now I have truly earned my "red badge of courage."



THE END

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