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Updated: May 13, 2025
Hugo's eyes sparkled with sinful pleasure as he said to himself, "Breath o' my life, an' I can but put THAT upon him, 'tis good-den and God keep thee, King of the Game-Cocks!" He waited and watched outwardly patient, but inwardly consuming with excitement till the woman had passed by, and the time was ripe; then said, in a low voice
Like horses, they are warranted to be "sound," or to be returned to the owner if "unsound." A father gives his son a horse and a slave; by his will he distributes among them his race-horses, hounds, game-cocks, and slaves. We leave the reader to carry out the parallel which we have only begun. Its details would cover many pages.
"This appeared to be a challenge to the others; and then a second would come out, and, after replying to it by putting himself through a similar series of attitudes, the two would attack each other, and fight with all the fury of a pair of game-cocks." "I could have watched their manoeuvres much longer," continued Basil, "but hunger got the better of me, and I made ready to fire.
From this parent stock varieties have been bred which attain in some cases to eight or ten times the weight of the ancient form. They have, moreover, lost the fierce combative spirit which characterizes their ancestors and which by selection has been preserved and intensified in our breeds of game-cocks.
There were about two hundred chickens running loose among the burning buildings. Our soldiers commenced killing them, and had slaughtered two-thirds of the lot when one of the officers discovered that they were game-cocks. This class of chickens not being considered edible, the killing was stopped and the balance of the flock saved.
"A proper matter," said another, "the drawing of swords so near the Queen's presence, ay, and in her very palace as 'twere! Hang it, they must be some poor drunken game-cocks fallen to sparring 'twere pity almost we should find them the penalty is chopping off a hand, is it not? 'twere hard to lose hand for handling a bit of steel, that comes so natural to one's gripe."
I must confess, however, that this is the only place in which I have ever found the Englishman without the Scot. Cock-fighting is carried on to a great extent here, and is indulged in by the natives, high and low. On market-days, vast numbers of natives may be seen wending their way to the cock-pit attached to each market or bazaar, with one of the celebrated Malay game-cocks under their arms.
"You little beast!" she said, fiercely; "is it courteous to pit your guests like game-cocks for your pleasure?" "You did it yourself!" retorted Ruyven, indignantly "and entered the pit yourself." "For a jest, silly! There were no bets. Now frown and vapor and wag your finger do! What do you lack? I will wrestle you if you wait until I don my buckskins. No?
In the Paris Salon of 1847, a small picture appeared, representing a Greek boy and girl stirring up two game-cocks to fight.
With the Galloways, Cadwaladers, Willings, Shippens, Rawles, and others, they formed a more or less distinct society, affecting London ways, dining at the extreme hour of four, loving cards, the dance, fox-hunting, and to see a main of game-cocks. Among them not of them came and went certain of what were called "genteel" Quakers Morrises, Pembertons, Whartons, and Logans.
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