twenty different Places, where he muft meet with 

 bad Uiage at fome of them ; and tho' his bons, 

 which he got at that Age, appear' d very gay, 

 and all of them won very handfbmly, yet it is 

 poffible a Taint might enfue from the hard 

 Ufage the old Dnck-IWn% Cock met with, and 

 lie concealed in the firft Generation, or, at leaft, 

 not dilcover it felf fo much in the firft as the 

 fecond. 



The fecond Reafon that is to be given for it, 

 might be owing to their different Way and Me- 

 thod of fighting, one being of the Bull-Dog 

 Kind, the other of a more aftive and ready Way 

 of fighting, which is quite the reverfe, and is 

 very often the Occafion of Crofles miffing, tho' 

 there are very few, even of the Curious, that 

 look upon it to be material ; but I will venture 

 to fay, that no one can affure themfelves of a 

 Crofs being juft, without either confulting in 

 what Manner they fight, and wherein they ex- 

 cel, that they may crofs with Things proper to 

 fuit that Way of fighting, and keep up that 

 Excellence, or elfe by putting Relations toge- 

 ther alter a proper Manner : I don't fay, but 

 good Fowl may, and have been bred, without 

 confulting either of thofe Methods, and chiefly 

 by relying upon Youth arid Blood ; but yet 

 there is not that Certainty in it, as in the for- 

 mer Ways, which was the Reafon of my un- 

 dertaking to nominate three different Sorts that 

 might excel, the better to furnifh the Publick 

 with Ideas of what never enter'd the Verge of 

 their Thoughts not that it was, in my Opi- 

 nion, 



