fightingcocks

Updated: June 10, 2025

Those niggers ought to have, been turned out to dig and fill in latrines for our soldiers, they ought to have been compelled to do all the menial work of the camps; but they never did anything of the sort "Tommy" was treated for the most part like a Kaffir dog, whilst the saucy niggers led the lives of fightingcocks, and to-day any ordinary Army Service nigger thinks himself a better man than "Tommy," and doesn't hesitate to tell you so.

A. G. (Alfred Greenwood) Hales - Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900): Letters from the Front