A collection of papers on the subject of athletic exercises. &c. &c. / by Sir John Sinclair, Bart. M.P.

Sir John Sinclair, 1st Baronet

Date:: 1806

Credit: A collection of papers on the subject of athletic exercises. &c. &c. / by Sir John Sinclair, Bart. M.P. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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penned, of equal goodness, will beat a double penned one. Game cocks live fully as long as common fowls. In some cases they have lasted above fourteen years, and as sound as the first day. They are so hardy that they can be reared in the winter time much better than the dunghill sort. The cross between a o game cock and a dunghill hen is excellent eating either as chickens or fowls. The following is extracted from a Pamphlet, called The Cocker. On Dieting and Ordering a Cock for Battle. In the dieting and ordering a cock for battle con- sists all the substance of profit and pleasure; and therefore expert cockers are very cautious in divulg- ing their secrets, as they call them, of dieting, for on that depends the winning or losing the battle. The best cock undieted, is unable to encounter the worst that is dieted. Let others be as niggardly as they please of their experience and observations, for my part, I shall be free, and scorn to conceal any thing that may tend to the propagation of the art and mystery of cock-fighting; therefore as to the dieting and ordering of cocks, depend on the in- structions following: Your cock should be taken about the latter end of August, for from that time till the latter end of May, cocking is in the prime; the summer season is

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