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Updated: July 27, 2025
"Spoke like a true-bred gamecock, s' help me!" "I'm as right as rain physically, Old Un, but " "Talkin' o' physic, Guv," said the old man, seating himself and nodding brightly, "talkin' o' physic, the physic as set you on your pins again was love, Guv, love!" "But it so happens " "Wait a bit, I ain't done, Guv!
'Out of my house, my young gamecock! Get out and crow on your own dunghill, if you can find one. And Harry turned and went without a word. Then I slipped out too, and I snatched my old bonnet and shawl off their peg in the kitchen, and I ran down the lane after him. 'Harry, says I, and he turned and looked at me like something that's hunted looks when it gets in a corner and turns on you.
Gamecock, in haste to visit his betrothed, passed on without heeding his adversary; but the valiant Redcomb flew at him, and with one stroke beat him to the earth. Gamecock rose, shook himself, and attacked Redcomb with such impetuosity, that at first he retreated; but, collecting his strength, he returned to the attack, and Gamecock again bit the dust.
"The fighting-fish is distantly related to the perch, but it has been used for public combats for so long that it has become highly specialized. It is really a sort of gamecock among fish, and the money expended in licenses in Siam brings in a comfortable revenue to the Crown.
"I thought that Sawney wore bare knees on his dirty hills," said another. One pointed to my buckles. "Pinchbeck out of the store," he says. "Ho, ho, such finery!" cried another. "See how he struts like a gamecock." "There's much ado when beggars ride," said a third, quoting the proverb. It was all so pitifully childish that it failed to provoke me.
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