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Updated: May 7, 2025
Do you think that he spent his time in the pursuit of rats?" "Well; I don't know; I don't think he did. But I have heard you say, sir, that you sometimes went to cockfights when you were young." "To cockfights! well, yes. But let me tell you, sir, that I always went in the company of gentlemen that is, when I did go, which was very seldom."
Betting was general at games and in sports, including horse-racing, heretofore dealt with, and cockfights. Efforts to halt gambling apparently had little effect as most of it was carried on semi-privately. However, in 1646, Richard Smyth and John Bradshaw were fined 100 pounds of tobacco in Lower Norfolk County for "unlawful gaming at cards."
Broussard?" asked Colonel Fortescue. "Very pleasant, daddy dear. He knows so much about birds." "I think," replied the Colonel, darkly, "Mr. Broussard's knowledge comes chiefly from the study of fighting chickens." "I hear he has cockfights on Sunday, in the cellar of his quarters," said Mrs. Fortescue, willing to give Broussard a slashing cut under the fifth rib.
From a moral standpoint my project would be acceptable, by serving as a kind of expiation and weekly purification of the temple of chance, as we might say." "But the fact remains that sometimes there are cockfights during the week," objected Padre Camorra, "and it wouldn't be right when the contractors of the cockpits pay the government " "Well, on those days close the school!"
Once a year the dominie added to his income by holding cockfights in the old school. This was at Yule, and the same practice held in the parish school of Thrums. It must have been a strange sight. Every male scholar was expected to bring a cock to the school, and to pay a shilling to the dominie for the privilege of seeing it killed there.
Almost everywhere the natives of the Archipelago have cockfights and horse races on holidays and Sundays. They are also greatly addicted to the sport of gambling. The Bontoc Igorot has none of the common pastimes or games of chance. This fact is remarkable, because the modern Malayan is such a gamester.
And, above all, his neighbours owned the influence of one who, with a reputation gained at the sword's point, stood resolutely, unflinchingly, abroad as at home, at fairs and cockfights as on his own hearth, for peace. More than a century was to elapse before private war ceased to be the amusement of the Irish gentry.
Once a year the dominie added to his income by holding cockfights in the old school. This was at Yule, and the same practice held in the parish school of Thrums. It must have been a strange sight. Every male scholar was expected to bring a cock to the school, and to pay a shilling to the dominie for the privilege of seeing it killed there.
On Saturdays, there were horse-races on the "Avenue"; everybody gambled; cockfights and dogfights were regarded as manly diversions; there was much carousing at taverns; and often at private houses there were all-night dances where the rising sun found everybody but the servants plain drunk.
The man, I am told, is a rake, who attends cockfights, and the mother of those children has been seen in the garden tight!" "Was that the lady in pink satin?" asked Angel, showing interest for the first time. "I daresay. One would expect to find her in pink satin." The lecture went on, but I did not hear it; my mind dwelt insistently on thoughts of the lady in pink. "What did she do, please?"
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