They clattered down the steps, Buck swearing at the others, and as the door closed and the exclamations started flying, Lincoln turned and looked at me. His forehead just a little damp.
‘The ancients, in their wisdom, made a great study of rhetoric,’ says he. ‘But I wonder did they ever envisage Buck Robinson? Yes, they probably did.’ He pursed his lips. ‘He’s a big fellow, though – likely big fellow he is. I – I think I’d rather see Cicero square up to him behind the barn than me. Yes, I rather think I would.’
Flash For Freedom!, p.240, Pan edition, 8th printing, 1980.
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