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Updated: June 12, 2025
We had bull-baitings, and badger-drawings, and hustings, and prize-fights, and cock-fights; we went to see men hanged; the pillory and the stocks were no empty 'terrors unto evil-doers, for there was commonly a malefactor occupying each of these institutions. With all this we had a broad blown comic sense.
A pugilistic encounter was then looked upon as an affair of national interest, and people came in their thousands from far and near to witness it. The Norwich neighbourhood was noted for its prize-fights, and Borrow had the names of all the champions at his tongue’s end.
He knocked the sporting editor speechless by telling him that they would have no more reports of prize-fights. Poor Murren went back to the local room, sat down at his table and buried his head in his hands.
"That's so, Sanford," she admitted. "Al Hendricks is a nice man, but he falls down on some things. Hasn't he been a good president?" "Until lately, Aunt Abby. Now, he's all mixed up with a crowd of intractables sporty chaps, who want a lot of innovations that the more conservative element won't stand for." "Why, they want prize-fights and a movie theatre-right in the club!" informed Eunice.
A light bolt and a key guard us against petty burglars; we walk abroad unarmed at the worst, we comment on the fact that it is well to carry a stick if we walk alone in Epping Forest. We have abolished duelling. We have forbidden prize-fights. Even the horse-whip has ceased to be the patrician's mode of redressing wrong. For assault, libel, slander, we have a remedy in the law courts.
The thought comes over us that, after all, the bull-fight is but one degree worse than the shameful prize-fights of professional bruisers in England and America. One of the most admirable and practical charities established in the Mexican capital is known as the Monte de Piedad, which is simply a national pawn-shop. The title signifies, "The Mountain of Mercy."
The original population of this city had come for the most part from Georgia, Mississippi, Kentucky, and Tennessee. It had long been an important industrial center. It was also a very rough place, the scene of prize-fights and cock-fights and a haven for escaped prisoners; and there was very close connection between the saloons and politics.
To hang around saloons, prize-fights, help out shyster lawyers with their tricks, and play the game hard during election times that satisfies him until he sees a chance of stepping into a bigger pair of boots of the same make. But, thank God, there are more honest men out of politics than in. That is the trouble, but there they are, and it will be a part of your business to round them up.
All sorts of courage the beaten, bloody prize-fighter coming up for more I used to make men take me to prize-fights; the declasse woman sailing through a nest of cats and looking at them as if they were mud under her feet; the liking what you like always; the utter disregard for other people's opinions just to live as I liked always and to die in my own way Did you bring up the cigarettes?"
The "Staked Plains" High Winds Lobo Wolves Branding Cows Black Jack Lightning and Hail Classing Cattle Conventions "Cutting" versus Polo Bull-Fight Prize-Fights River and Sea Fishing Sharks. More odds and ends! and more apologies for the disconnected character of this chapter. It must be remembered that these notes are only jotted down as they have occurred to me.
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