' PINCHER ' AND ' B ULLET ' 145 



' Pincher ' to fight another called ' Bullet,' for <20 a side. 

 After a long fight ' Pincher ' won. He then bought 

 ' Bullet,' and sold * Pincher ' to the late owner of 

 ' Bullet ' ; or, in other words, exchanged dogs, and made 

 the match over again, to fight three weeks later. He did 

 this because he said * Bullet ' was not beat, but too big 

 in condition, and that that, and nothing else, lost him 

 the battle. For in the early part of it, whilst he had 

 breath, he had much the best of the fighting. On the 

 night they fought the pit was crowded with the fancy 

 and others. After the delicate process of licking the 

 dogs all over, to see that they had no cantharides, 

 cayenne pepper, or other pungent thing on them to 

 make them loose hold of one another whilst fighting, 

 was gone through, and other preliminaries settled, they 

 set to work. After a stubborn and plucky resistance, as 

 evidenced by the result, the battle ended in the death of 

 ' Pincher ' in the pit. ' Bullet,' I may add, was never 

 beat again after his first defeat. He was a white dog, 

 with a liver-coloured spot over his eye, and a patch on 

 his hip, his fighting- weight being 36 Ib. Mr. Parker had 

 a picture of him in his breakfast-room, in John Street, 

 of which he appeared not a little proud. 



The point in this case was that the dog was 6 Ib. 

 lighter when he fought ' Pincher ' the second time, than 

 he was in the first fight ; and Mr. Parker inferred from 

 this circumstance that, in like manner, horses could not 

 do their best unless they were thoroughly trained ; and 

 his common-sense view of the matter is worthy of our 

 consideration. I remember that when Cedric won at 

 Bath, as I have mentioned, Admiral Eous came up and 

 complimented Mr. Parker on his success. 



' Yes,' replied the latter, ' he is a bad horse, but can 

 stay well a thing which very few can do.' 



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