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I think he wants the third column, not the third row, so $3 is right, but the third column has spaces in it. You can use this:
awk '{ sub("^[^ ]* [^ ]* ", "") ; sub(" [^ ]*$", "") ; print }'
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Hi,

this command prints the line number, a colon, a space and the last two characters for each line:
awk '{ print NR ": " substr($0, length($0)-1) }' test.txt