Uncle Buddy's Prayer

Oh Lord, give me a backbone as big as a sawlog,

ribs like the sleepers under the church floor,

put iron shoes on me and galvanized breeches,

give me a rhinoceros hide for a skin,

and hang a wagonload of determination up in the gable-end of my soul,

and help me to sign the contract to fight the devil as long as I've got a fist

and bite him as long as I have a tooth,

then gum him till I die.

All this I ask for Christ's sake.

Amen.

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