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 465
124. Frog in the Middle. XII.—COCK-FIGHTING. , I Lave already spoken at large upon cock-fighting, andthrowing at cocks. I shall only observe that the latter, espe-cially, was a very common pastime among the boys of thiscountry till within these few years; and in the following en-graving we have the… … 125. COCI-THROWING TuiUUPll. CHAP. IV. OF THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND. 395 The hero supposed to have won the cock, or whose cockescaped unhurt from the danger to which he had been exposed,is carried upon [ a long pole by two of his companions; heholds the bird in his hands, and is followed by a third…
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