O wild kaleidoscopic panorama of jaculatory arms and legs. 
The twisting, twining, turning, tussling, throwing, thrusting, throttling, tugging, thumping, the tightening thews. 
The tearing of tangled trousers, the jut of giant calves protuberant. 
The wriggleness, the wormlike, snaky movement and life of it; 
The insertion of strong men in the mud, the wallowing, the stamping with thick shoes; 
The rowdyism, and élan, the slugging and scraping, the cowboy Homeric ferocity. 
(Ah, well kicked, red legs! Hit her up, you muddy little hero, you!) 
The bleeding noses, the shins, the knuckles abraded: 
That’s the way to make men! Go it, you border ruffians, I like ye.


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