Abagail knew what the boy was wrestling with, and her heart went out to him.
But "10 year ago boys and girls wouldn't wrestle each other," she said.
The boy can't at his age wrestle with men, so he never gets a proper match.
She and the other boy wrestle for the food and they end up having what the script describes as "crude intercourse".
One day, after he and Ian both receive detention, the two boys wrestle.
Felix laughed and went back to the branding fire, where the boys were wrestling with another calf.
Where it is an issue is when boys are wrestling girls.
It left the boys, ages 13 and 15, to wrestle with the consequences of their actions.
Two boys were wrestling on the threadbare lawn in front of the house.
He settled himself at ease on the bench where the boys had wrestled and laughed, and put up his feet comfortably.