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प्रश्न
When did the narrator find that the boy was badly wounded?
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उत्तर
Soon after the boy disclosed the conquest of Ratisbon and his glorious role in perching the French flag, Napoleon found that the boy was wounded.
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‘You’re wounded!’ ‘Nay’, his soldier’s pride Touched to the quick, he said:
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To see your flag-bird flap his vans Where I, to heart’s desire, Perched him!’
