The Royal Pastime of Cock-fighting

About this eBook

Author

R. H. (Robert Howlett)

Title

The Royal Pastime of Cock-fighting The art of breeding, feeding, fighting, and curing cocks of the game

Credits

Produced by deaurider, Paul Marshall and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

SF: Agriculture: Animal culture

Subject

Cockfighting

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 54372

Release Date

March 16, 2017

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.THE ROYAL PASTIME OF COCK-FIGHTING,
2. 2.THE PREFACE.
3. 3.THE ROYAL SPORT OF COCKING. — Of the Qualifications of a Game Cock. — 1. Of the Courage of a Game Cock. — 2. Of a good Heeler. — 3. Of the Shape of a Game Cock. — 4. Of the right Size of a Game Cock. — How to breed up Game-Cocks. — Of Cocks and Hens to Breed by. — Of the Place proper to Feed at. — Of the Place proper for the Hens to lay in, and the manner of ordering the Eggs. — How the Chickens are to be brought up. — When Cocks shou’d be Dub’d and Penn’d. — When Cocks should be set out to Walk, and where. — Of a proper Roost for Cocks. — Of Sparring young Cocks and its use. — The method of Dieting, & feeding Game-Cocks. — When and how to Sparr your Game-Cock. — To make the Scowering Pill. — When and how to Stive your Game-Cocks. — Of the several Ways of making Cock-bread. — How to make the ordinary Cock-bread. — Another Receipt for to make Cock-bread. — How to make the best sort of Cock-bread. — Of other Food used by some for Game-Cocks. — How a Game-Cock should be Fed before he Fights. — What Water is best for Cocks. — To make Barly Water. — Concerning the Method of Trimming Game-Cocks. — Of the Heeling of Game-Cocks. — The Methods of Matching Cocks. — Concerning the right Handling of a Cock. — How the Wounded Cocks, after Battle, should be ordered. — A Remedy for any Green Wound in Cocks. — Another for the same. — An excellent Remedy for the Eyes. — Another for the same. — Another for the same. — An easy Purge for Cocks. — For the Gangreens and Cankers in Cocks. — An excellent healing Remedy for Wounds. — A great Cooler for Feeding Cocks. — A Remedy for the Looseness in Cocks. — For the Flux. — When a Cock is Costive. — How to Cure the Roup. — How to cure the Pipp. — To Kill Lice in Cocks or Hens. — Of the Gout and its Cure. — Of the Black Sickness.
4. 4.A POEM, IN PRAISE OF THE Fighting-Cock.
5. 5.Some LINES upon two COCKS.
6. 6.A POEM WRIT UPON COCKING.
7. 7.A Copy of Verses UPON TWO COCKS FIGHTING.
8. 8.A Copy of Verses Writ upon a COCK-MATCH.

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