The Royal Pastime of Cock-fighting / The art of breeding, feeding, fighting, and curing cocks of the game
by R. H.
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Chapters (136)
- THE ROYAL PASTIME OF COCK-FIGHTING,
- THE PREFACE.
- 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.
- A POEM, IN PRAISE OF THE Fighting-Cock.
- Some LINES upon two COCKS.
- A POEM WRIT UPON COCKING.
- A Copy of Verses UPON TWO COCKS FIGHTING.
- A Copy of Verses Writ upon a COCK-MATCH.
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