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Updated: June 14, 2025
'We have a dog at home, said I, 'in the country; but I can't say I should like to match him. Indeed, I do not like dog-fighting. 'Not like dog-fighting! said the man, staring. 'The truth is, Joe, that he is just come to town. 'So I should think; he looks rather green not like dog-fighting! 'Nothing like it, is there, Joey? 'I should think not; what is like it?
A time will come, and that speedily, when folks will give up everything else, and follow dog-fighting. 'Do you think so? said I. 'Think so? Let me ask what there is that a man wouldn't give up for it? 'Why, said I, modestly, 'there's religion. 'Religion! How you talk. Why, there's myself bred and born an Independent, and intended to be a preacher, didn't I give up religion for dog-fighting?
Cruelties were there inflicted that seemed to be a libel on human nature; and such was the baneful influence of the scene, that it appeared to be scarcely possible for any one to enter these pits without experiencing a greater or less degree of moral degradation. The public dog-pits have now been put down; but the system of dog-fighting, with most of its attendant atrocities, still continues.
"We have a dog at home," said I, "in the country; but I can't say I should like to match him. Indeed, I do not like dog-fighting." "Not like dog-fighting!" said the man, staring. "The truth is, Joe, that he is just come to town." "So I should think; he looks rather green not like dog-fighting!" "Nothing like it, is there, Joey?" "I should think not; what is like it?
'No, said Francis Ardry, 'something higher and much more rational than dog-fighting at present occupies my thoughts. 'Dear me, said I, 'I thought I had heard you say that there was nothing like it! 'Like what? said Francis Ardry. 'Dog-fighting, to be sure, said I. 'Pooh, said Francis Ardry; 'who but the gross and unrefined care anything for dog-fighting?
This shameful and barbarous practice was continued until the eighteenth century; some of our kings took delight in it, and in the old grammar schools in the North of England it was sanctioned by the masters, who received from their scholars a small tax called "cock-fight dues." Happily, with bull-baiting, bear-baiting, dog-fighting, and the like, this cruel and brutal pastime has ceased to exist.
A time will come, and that speedily, when folks will give up everything else, and follow dog-fighting." "Do you think so?" said I. "Think so? Let me ask what there is that a man wouldn't give up for it?" "Why," said I, modestly, "there's religion." "Religion! How you talk. Why, there's myself, bred and born an Independent, and intended to be a preacher, didn't I give up religion for dog-fighting?
'There is one thing, said I, 'connected with this matter which surprises me your own lukewarmness. Yes, making every allowance for your natural predilection for dog-fighting, and your present enamoured state of mind, your apathy at the commencement of such a movement is to me unaccountable.
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