. Wright's book of poultry, revised and edited in accordance with the latest poultry club standards. ious Artists dilTrcnt Skill disclose,The wTrious Weapon diffrent Temper curving Points too soft a Temper bear,And now too hard their brittlcness declare ;Now on the Plain the trecherous Weapons lye,Now wingd in Air the shiverd Fragments Hy,Surprizd, chagrind, th incautious Feeders gaze,And Smith alone ingenious Artist praise. Steel spurs, which sold at 50s. to 60s. perdozen pairs, also had their celebrated temper of those b\- Singleton of Dublin,was as proverbial as that of
. Wright's book of poultry, revised and edited in accordance with the latest poultry club standards. ious Artists dilTrcnt Skill disclose,The wTrious Weapon diffrent Temper curving Points too soft a Temper bear,And now too hard their brittlcness declare ;Now on the Plain the trecherous Weapons lye,Now wingd in Air the shiverd Fragments Hy,Surprizd, chagrind, th incautious Feeders gaze,And Smith alone ingenious Artist praise. Steel spurs, which sold at 50s. to 60s. perdozen pairs, also had their celebrated temper of those b\- Singleton of Dublin,was as proverbial as that of OShaughnessysLimerick fish-hooks; those of Kendrick ofRedditch, and Ross of , were alsohighly prized. Shcfileld had several goodmakers ; and in the West Country the manufac-ture of J. Watling, of , was preferred to allothers. Great attention was given to what were METAL SPURS USED IN COCK-FIGIITING. 353 thought the most deadly curves, and to the spurbeing able not only to penetrate, but to cut itsway out again. Of the steel spurs shown inFig. 114, D is by Watling of Exeter; E by. Fig. 113.—Silver Spurs. while many have pointed to Natures laws asordaining fatal combats of the same kind. Thislast argument is not sound, since it omits toconsider that in the case before us the fighting in-stinct has been developed by the selection of manuntil it has attained an intensity that docs notexist in Nature left to herself. Natures com-batants do not as a rule fight to the death, butwhen one is thoroughly whipped, it gives in orruns away; in the Game fowl courage and spirithave been developed artificially, until a bird hasbeen produced that cannot yield till death, or if hedoes, is at once ignominiously consigned by hismaster to the pot, a vengeance Nature does notinflict. That is to be remembered ; but there canbe little doubt that if a Game cock had thechoice offered him of having his neck wrungor meeting an antagonist, he would unhesitat-ingly prefer the latter, and i
Size: 1486px × 1681px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1910, bookpublishe, booksubjectpoultry
