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When my father came about the office he sometimes did not well know what to do with himself. So he used to invite Bidder to have a wrestle with him, for old acquaintance sake. And the two wrestled together so often, and had so many falls (sometimes I thought they would bring the house down between them), that they broke half the chairs in my outer office.
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Robert Stephenson told Samuel Smiles how his father liked to wrestle with his old friend, George Bidder

 

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