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The Royal Pastime of Cock-fighting
R. H. (Robert Howlett)
A game cock's courage, shape, and breeding were once studied like a science. This old treatise lays out the qualifications of a fighting cock and the art of rearing one for the pit. Detailed, historical, and rooted in a rough old sport. A window into a cruel pastime of earlier centuries. Note: a manual on cockfighting, offered as a historical document and filed oddly among nature titles.
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56 chapters
- 1THE ROYAL PASTIME OF COCK-FIGHTING,
- 2THE PREFACE.
- 3THE ROYAL SPORT OF COCKING.
- 4Of the Qualifications of a Game Cock.
- 51. Of the Courage of a Game Cock.
- 62. Of a good Heeler.
- 73. Of the Shape of a Game Cock.
- 84. Of the right Size of a Game Cock.
- 9How to breed up Game-Cocks.
- 10Of Cocks and Hens to Breed by.
- 11Of the Place proper to Feed at.
- 12Of the Place proper for the Hens to lay in, and the manner of ordering the Eggs.
- 13How the Chickens are to be brought up.
- 14When Cocks shou’d be Dub’d and Penn’d.
- 15When Cocks should be set out to Walk, and where.
- 16Of a proper Roost for Cocks.
- 17Of Sparring young Cocks and its use.
- 18The method of Dieting, feeding Game-Cocks.
+ 38 more. The full contents open with the book.
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