and so the next time they met , blaise told him he had decided to stay in , and so the final competition ceremony commenced and laredo , driven by hatred , exceeded blaise in all measures : he performed a sharp-shooting exercise that left the judges breathless ; he juggled knives ; he recited vast portions of the lincoln-douglas debate ; and , for a finale , he sang both the battle hymn of the republic and roger 's and hammerstein 's oklahoma like a nightingale .