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I don't know why, unless it was because he could out-run and out-wrestle the best of us; and yet he was never pleased with himself unless the rest of us were satisfied to have it that way. "Ongyatasse was what his mother called him.
By gold only, therefore, can we out-wrestle him. "Oh, Mr. Gilbert, Mr. Gilbert! is it not written, that those who make haste to be rich, pierce themselves through with many sorrows? Oh, Mr. Gilbert! God's blessing is not on it all." "Not on you, madam? Be sure that brave Captain John Hawkins's star told me a different tale, when I cast his nativity for him.
He fences and singlesticks with you there you are even. But he won't box or wrestle with you." "He can out-box and out-wrestle me," Graham muttered ruefully. "You watch and you will see what I mean by not competing. He is treating me like a spirited colt, giving me my head to make a mess of things if I want to. Not for the world would he interfere. Oh, trust me, I know him.
"His axe would flash and bite into a sugar-tree or sycamore, and down it would come. If you heard him fellin' trees in a clearin', you would say there was three men at work by the way the trees fell." Standing six feet four, he could out-lift, out-work, and out-wrestle any man he came in contact with.
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