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Perkins added his explanations to those in the Handbook, and showed Johnnie and Grandpa how cock-fighting was done, gave a demonstration of skunk tag, and proved that the soft, splintery boards of the kitchen floor were finely adapted to mumbly peg.
"Well, to be sure, that beats cock-fighting; and what does Harris say to all this?" "Why, in course, he's off, and I'm in such a quandary," said Mrs. Smith. "You wasn't married to Harris, out and out, was you?" said Mrs. Peck, who had a keen relish for such interesting news as this.
Description of my House at Jala-Jala Storms, Gales, and Earthquakes Reforming the Banditti Card-playing Tagal Cock-fighting Skirmishes with Robbers Courage of my Wife Our Domestic Happiness Visits from Europeans Their Astonishment at our Civilisation Visit to a Sick Friend at Manilla Tour through the Provinces of the Ilocos and Pangasinan Indians My Reception by the Tinguians Their Appearance and Habits Manners and Customs Indian Fête at Laganguilan y Madalag Horrible Ceremonies to Celebrate a Victory Songs and Dances Our Night-watch We Explore our Cabin Discovery of a Secret Well Tomb of the Tinguian Indians.
Cock-fighting had been the taste of his boyish days, before he became a money-making man; and at every interval of business, at each intermission of the passion of avarice, when he had leisure to think of amusement, this his first idea of pleasure recurred.
The unhappy man just gone, had begun as a farmer of good prospects; he had taken to drinking, card-playing, horse-racing, cock-fighting, the vices of the age; against which the young clergyman was generously indignant. Then he had got to poaching and to horse-stealing, for which he suffered. The divine rapidly drew striking and fearful pictures of these rustic crimes.
He felt the hand that had closed round his wrist with his disengaged fingers, and his fingers went timorously up the arm, patted a muscular chest, and explored a bearded face. Marvel's face was astonishment. "I'm dashed!" he said. "If this don't beat cock-fighting! Most remarkable! And there I can see a rabbit clean through you, 'arf a mile away! Not a bit of you visible except "
But if peace were the real and only object of Conscription, and if Conscription precluded the probability of war, military training, after some years, would almost certainly decline, and its supposed advantages would be lost. When you breed game-cocks, they will fight; but if you forbid cock-fighting, the breed will decline. You cannot have training for war without the expectation of war.
"And that's all right," said he in a changed voice. "What the devil ?" Sefton began. Beetle's false tears had ceased; McTurk, smiling, was on his feet. Together they bound the knees and ankles of the enemy even more straitly. Stalky took the arm-chair and contemplated the scene with his blandest smile. A man trussed for cock-fighting is, perhaps, the most helpless thing in the world.
The bull-fight is spreading to France, and English newspapers are advocating the reintroduction of bear-baiting and cock-fighting. Are we not moving in a circle?" "The road winds, as I have allowed," returned the Minor Poet; "the gradient is somewhat steep. Just now, maybe, we are traversing a backward curve. I gain my faith by pausing now and then to look behind.
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