cocking-mains

Updated: May 4, 2025

All the Americans began to study Spanish, and all the Puerto Ricans to study English, without particularly gratifying results on either side. Cocking-mains, local games of chance, and more hectic immoralities were set forth for the delectation of the private soldiers; while I have personal knowledge of at least one quasi-clandestine bullfight, that may be best described as a furtive fizzle.

Karl Stephen Herrman - From Yauco to Las Marias : A recent campaign in Puerto Rico by the Independent Regular Brigade under the command of Brig. General Schwan