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Cockfighting
Blood sport of two roosters set on each other
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Country contentments. or, The husbandmans recreations. : Containing the wholesome experience, in which any ought to recreate himself, after the toyl of more serious business. As namely, hunting, hawking, coursing with grey-hounds, and the laws of leash, shooting in the long-bow or cross-bow, bowling, tennis, baloon; the whole art of angling; and the use of the fighting cock. / By G. Markham.
Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637.
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Date: 1675
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Sarawak: two Sea Dayaks at a cockfight. Photograph.
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Reference: 30501i
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Men are gathered around in a circle watching two cocks fight one another. Wood engraving after W. Hogarth.
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
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Reference: 34384i
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Game fowls, their origin and history, with a description of the breeds, strains, and crosses : the American and English modes of feeding, training, and heeling; how to breed and cross, together with a description and treatment of all diseases incident to game fowls / [John W Cooper].
Cooper, John W., 1803-?
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Date: 1869
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