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But de flesh is a little soft in yo' muscle, Judge." "Ah! Samson," answered Custis, "there's one old fellow that is wrastling you." "Time?" said the negro; "we can't fight him, sho! Dat's a fack! But I'm good as any man in Somerset now." "Except my daughter's boy, the class-leader from Talbot." "Is dat boy in yo' family," exclaimed Samson, kindling up.
He and his friends had not the slightest personal grudge against Lincoln; but hearing the neighborhood talk about the newcomer, and especially Offut's extravagant praise of his clerk, who, according to Offut's statement, knew more than any one else in the United States, and could beat the whole county at running, jumping or "wrastling," they decided that the time had come to assert themselves, and strove to bring about a trial of strength between Armstrong and Lincoln.
Blueworthy didn't exactly tumble, so's to speak, but the door opened, and he comes shuffling and groaning into sight. His face was twisted up and he had one hand spread-fingered on the small of his back. "Dear, dear!" says he. "I'm dreadful sorry to have kept you waiting, Mr. Wingate. I've been wrastling with this turrible lumbago, and I'm 'fraid it's affecting my hearing. I'll tell you "
She reminded her father that Butler had not "his experience of the auld and wrastling times, when folk were gifted wi' a far look into eternity, to make up for the oppressions whilk they suffered here below in time.
"It took me several years of wrastling with life," he was fond of saying, "to find out that it ain't so much matter whar you be, as what you be. 'N if I was you, Waldy," here was the application, "I'd contrive to learn a little something on my own hook, before I aspired to go consorting with them as knows it all!"
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