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Tommy and Harry visit Home The Fashionable Guests Miss Simmons takes notice of Harry Harry's Troubles Master Compton and Mash Estrangement of Tommy Visit to the Theatre Misbehaviour there Card Playing The Ball Harry Dancing a Minuet Story of Sir Philip Sidney Master Mash insults Harry The Fight in the Drawing-room The Bull-baiting Tommy strikes Harry Master Mash's Combat with Harry Tommy's Narrow Escape from the Bull The Grateful Black.
The public mind of this day absolutely revolts at such brutality. Yet, less than a hundred years ago on the 24th of May, 1802, a Bill for the abolition of bull-baiting was lost in the House of Commons by sixty-four to fifty-one, Mr. Wyndham contending that horse-racing and hunting were more cruel than bull-baiting or prize-fighting!
Which discourse led on to a story of the ancient Spartans, and their superiority to the luxury-loving Persians. IV. The Bull-Baiting The time had now arrived when Tommy was by appointment to go home and spend some time with his parents. Mr.
Coaches rolled over the frozen river, and a fair was held with booths, bear-baiting, and bull-baiting. An ox was roasted whole on the ice. This thick ice lasted two months. The hard year 1690 surpassed in severity even the famous winters at the beginning of the seventeenth century, so minutely observed by Dr.
By accident a woman, by habit a man, she must needs invent a costume proper to her pursuits. But she was no shrieking reformer, no fanatic spying regeneration in a pair of breeches. Only in her attire she showed her wit; and she went to a bull-baiting in such a dress as well became her favourite sport.
On days of fiesta, the church genuflexions are soon over; and then the gambling-booth, the race-course, bull-baiting, the cock-pit, and various minor amusements, come into full operation. In all these you may meet the robed priest of the morning, and stake your dollar or doubloon against his, if you feel so inclined.
"How long is this little game of yours to continue, this bull-baiting?" he inquired. "How long am I to be made a butt of for the amusement of a lot of imbeciles?" Miss Thorn crossed over and seated herself on the ground beside him. "You must be sensible," she said, in a tone that she might have used to a spoiled child. "I know it is difficult after the night you have had.
And that women shall have leave to carry rushes to the church for the decorating of it, according to their old custom. But withal his Majesty doth hereby account still as prohibited all unlawful games to be used on Sundays only, as bear and bull-baiting, interludes, and at all times in the meaner sort of people by law prohibited, bowling."
Though her spirit was untamed, the burden of her years compelled her to a tranquil life. She, who formerly never missed a bull-baiting, must now content herself with tick-tack. Her fortune, moreover, had been wrecked in the Civil War. Though silver shells still jingled in her pocket, time was she knew the rattle of the yellow boys.
It was Monday afternoon of Bursley Wakes not our modern rectified festival, but the wild and naïve orgy of seventy years ago, the days of bear-baiting and of bull-baiting, from which latter phrase, they say, the town derives its name. In those times there was a town-bull, a sort of civic beast; and a certain notorious character kept a bear in his pantry.
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