Man after man came against him, but no man put his hand down, even Olaf Henderson and French Louis failing despite their hugeness.

When they contended it was a trick, a trained muscular knack, he challenged them to another test.
"Look here, you-all" he cried.

"I'm going to do two things: first, weigh my sack; and second, bet it that after you-all have lifted clean from the floor all the sacks of flour you-all are able, I'll put on two more sacks and lift the whole caboodle clean." "By Gar! Ah take dat!" French Louis rumbled above the cheers.
"Hold on!" Olaf Henderson cried.

"I ban yust as good as you, Louis.

I yump half that bet." Put on the scales, Daylight's sack was found to balance an even four hundred dollars, and Louis and Olaf divided the bet between them.
Fifty-pound sacks of flour were brought in from MacDonald's cache.
Other men tested their strength first.