Abe stopped eating and watched every move in this remarkable performance.

The ease with which the big Vermonter had so defied the law of gravitation with that unwieldly stick amazed him.
"That thing'll weigh from seven to eight hundred pounds," said he.

"I reckon you're the stoutest man in this part o' the state an' I'm quite a man myself.

I've lifted a barrel o' whisky and put my mouth to the bung hole.

I never drink it." "Say," he added as he sat down and began eating a doughnut.