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This is at least a barbarous custom, and extremely 

 presumptuous in man to attempt to improve nature. 

 We believe this outrageous practice originated in 

 the barbarous ages, when dog-fighting formed an 

 amusement amongst the fashionable. Happily this 

 is now of rare occurrence ; and we hope the time 

 is not far distant when this, as well as the brutal 

 practice of cock-fighting, will be prevented by an 

 act oi the legislature. 



