Illustration depicting boys playing cock-fighting. Two players are made to sit on the ground, draw their legs up, and clasp their hands together under their knees, and over their arms at the bend of the elbows and there they sit trussed like a couple of fowls. Thus prepared, the two combatants are placed face to face, their toes touching, and are left to fight it out. This they do by striving to knock each other down, each to overbalance the other without losing his own equilibrium. Two falls out of three decide the games winner. Dated 19th century

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