The Royal Pastime of Cock-Fighting, Or the Art of Breeding, Feeding, Fighting, and Curing Cocks of the Game

Download or read book The Royal Pastime of Cock-Fighting, Or the Art of Breeding, Feeding, Fighting, and Curing Cocks of the Game written by Robert Howlett and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-11-12 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Royal Pastime of Cock-Fighting, or the Art of Breeding, Feeding, Fighting, and Curing Cocks of the Game: Published Purely for the Good, and Benefit of All Such as Take Delight in That Royal, and Warlike Sport; To Which Is Prefixed, a Short Treatise, Wherein Cocking Is Proved Not Only Ancient and Honourable, but Also Useful, and Profitable D E O M O U N 0. Which, as Macrobius al/o afirms, jig nifies One, or Only; and this Attribute they gave to the C och, hecau/e he was the greate, and almo the only Deity they A dor' d, the re heing accounted hut his A i/lants, and C oadfntors. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."