The Cocker; Containing Every Information to the Breeders and Amateurs of That Noble Bird, the Game Cock - To Which Is Added, a Variety of Other Useful Information for the Instruction of Those Who Are Attendants on the Cock Pit #246066

From these superficial trials and our own want of experience we are induced to purchase cocks of this description to breed from, which must inevitably involve us in error. But maturer experience will inform us, that high condition will incite cou rage in a half-bred cock; and a bloody heeler in that situation may succeed against one of superior game and less heel. It therefore shews how necessary it is to guard against a propos session of any single cock however meritorious.