The Badminton Magazine 1898-02: Vol 6 Iss 31 (1898)
Longman, Green & Co · leaf 117
ll, Iam sure, be appreciated by those who are interested in or familiar with deer. Everybody has heard of cock-pits, but few persons have seen one ; and it has occurred to me that many may be interested by the accompanying view—kindly sent to me by Mr. R. St. John Corbet, of Shrewsbury—of a famous… … ground that cocks fight because they like it, because ‘it is their nature to.’ In old numbers of the ‘Sporting Magazine’ it is curious to find very often after the record of a race meeting a notification that ‘a main of cocks was also fought between the Gentlemen of Hampshire and the Gentlemen of…
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