for it is for both cocks, when the law is begun to be told and if one cock fights within the long law, and the other not, it is a battle to the cock that fought, reckoning from the first setting to. All disputes relative to bets, or the battle being gained or lost, must be decided by the spectators. The crowing and mantling of a cock, or fighting at the setter-to's hand before he is put to the other cock, or breaking from his adversary, is not allowed as a fight.

Each feeder has a particular mode of dieting and preparing cocks for battle; the following is a good method: After cautiously examining whether the cocks are sound and hard feathered, keep thein in separate pens, with moveable perches within: keep the pens peculiarly clean, and feed them with the crumb of stale bread cut into square pieces, giving each a handful at sunrise, noon, and sunset, with cool spring water for drink; after thus feeding for four or five days, let them spar some morning with one another in a room covered with straw, or on a grass plot, first guarding their heels with hots, or leather spurs; let them spar some time, but not so far As to draw blood. When they pant and appear faint, give to cach about the size of a walnut of white sugar candy, rosemary chopped, and butter, mixed together; this will increase their strength, cleanse them, and render them long winded: immediately after this, put them into separate bags or baskets half filled with straw, then cover them with the same material, and make them fast, in order that the cocks may sweat till evening: at night take them out, lick their eyes and head all over with the tongue, fill their throats with stale bread, and pour warm urine therein, which will cleanse both their heads and bodies. Exercise and diet them with stale bread and whites of eggs regularly, one day sparring and the other feeding and resting, with now and then the scour ig, for at least a fortnight previous to the battle.

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