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Identifier: abrahamlincol1479coff (find matches)
Title: Abraham Lincoln
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Coffin, Charles Carleton, 1823-1896 Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Sovereign Grand Lodge
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Presidents
Publisher: New York : Harper & Brothers
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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ng in lifebetter than wrestling. He looked every day into the faces of noblewomen and pure-hearted girls as they examined the goods which heplaced before them. What would they think of him if lie found hisgreatest pleasure in wrestling with Jack? I want you to teach those fellows a lesson, said Offut. They area set of bullies, and I want you to take them down. Quite likely Abraham Lincoln was not averse to teaching them alesson, and there would be some satisfaction in putting their championupon the ground. The match was arranged, and the day fixed. Allthe Clary Grove fellows, and others up and down the Sangamon, heardof it, and laid their plans to be present, some staking their money onArmstrong, others on Offuts clerk. The day arrives ; New Salem isastir. The spectators tie their horses beneath the trees and take a di-inkof whiskev. The ring is formed. There is a friendly hand-shaking as 9^ 312 ! X ~. a p t: p ^ B S ^ ET I- ~ 5 >- c — rt HS ^ ^ i5 5- f:; ^ —• O P ■y; X :fj
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A CITIZEN OF ILLINOIS. 67 the contestants enter it; then comes the grappling, turning, the strain-ing of muscles. If Jack Armstrong imagined it would be an easy vic-tory, he found himself mistaken. He tries his ))eculiar tricks, whichhave given him victory over other wrestlers ; but somehow this clerk ofOffuts, who spends so much time in reading, does not go down. Heseems to be playing with Jack, and biding his time. Jacks friends donot like the looks of things ; if he is vanquished they will lose theirbets, and it will be humiliating. (Jne of the gang attempts to interferein behalf of Armstrong. Fair play! IStand back I Let them alone I were the criesfrom the excited crowd. Lincoln sees that the Clary Grove fellows in-tend to help Jack gain an advantage ; like another Samson he ))uts forthhis strength, and the liitherto champion of Sangamon goes to the ground. Armstrongs friends are amazed and angry. But tliere is good stuffiti Jack. He knows that he has been fairly thrown, and exhib

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