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I spared thee before for the sake of thy prophet, for that he forbade the killing of women, and I do so this second time because of thy weakness and tender age and strangerhood; but I charge thee, if there be, in the army sent by King Omar ben Ennuman to the succour of the King of Constantinople, a stronger than thou, send him hither and tell him of me, for in wrestling there are divers kinds of strokes and tricks, such as feinting and the fore-tripe and the back-tripe and the leg-crick and the thigh-twist and the jostle and the cross-buttock."
Of course Peter knew as a fact that women were lighter than men, but after bracing himself, much as he would have done to try the cross-buttock with two hundred pounds of bone and brawn, he marvelled much at the ease with which he transferred the rider. "She can't weigh over eighty pounds," he thought.
I understand it all now." "Yes, but avoid wrestling with him; he is good at the cross-buttock, I hear. May I be your second?" "Certainly you may, if you like; Robarts is the other, and thank you for wishing it, Buller." Beyond the fields where cricket was played there was a little wood, and in this wood a circular hollow, like a pond, only there was no water in it.
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