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their places against each other. And here is where Apollyon turned his back and fled from the valley. Verily, your father did play the man here."
Then he led them a little farther, and showed them a monument that had been set up there in honor of Christian's victory. They stood around it and rejoiced, and one of the boys read aloud the writing that was engraved upon it:
"Hard by here, was a battle fought,
Most strange and yet most true;
Christian and Apollyon sought
Each other to subdue.
"The man so bravely played the man
He made the fiend to fly;
Of which a monument I stand,
The same to testify."
