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1. Feats of Strength

   

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   At the patterns and at the races long ago they used go in a lot for testing strength.
   They had a kind of a yoke fixed in the ground, like two stakes, and when you'd hit wan the other would rise a certain number of notches. They used hit that with a big sledge and the man that would make the yoke rise highest would be the strongest man.
   If you got it up a certain distance a bell would ring but 'twas very seldom anyone was able to make it ring.

   

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   History Edit

   Date

   March 1936

   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   English

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

   Informant

   • Jem Coady