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Updated: May 19, 2025

Here's wot I propose that we-all takes an' lays out a sixteen-foot ring on the quarterdeck, an' that the raw-boned Yank and the stodgy Englisher strips to the waist, an' all-friendly-like, settles the question by Queensbury rules an' may the best man win. "Hardenberg looks him over. "'An' wot might be your weight? says he. 'I don't figure on hurtin' of you, if so be you're below my class.

Frank Norris - A Deal in Wheat and Other Stories of the New and Old West