The sports and pastimes of the people of England : including the rural and domestic recreations, May games, mummeries, shows, processions, pageants, and pompous spectacles, from the earliest period to the present time (1830)
Strutt, Joseph, 1749-1802, Hone, William, 1780-1842 · London : Printed for William Reeves · leaf 320
reevery promising brutes in the course of training, and that thephenomenon then exhibited had often given him reason to des-pair of success. IX.—A DANCING COCK AND THE DESERTER BIRD.The joculators did not confine themselves to the tutoring ofquadrupeds, but extended their practice to birds also;… … 83. A Cock dancing on Stilts to the Music of a Pipe and Tabor. In the present day, this may probably be considered as amere effort of the illuminators fancy, and admit of a doubtwhether such a trick was ever displayed in reality: but manyare yet living who were witnesses to an exhibition far more…
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