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for Generations paft, they will refemble one a- 

 nother in a particnlar Manner, and will be little 

 or no more Difference in them than as an Acci- 

 dent in Fighting, or Condition may occafion. 



E K R O R the Third. 



Of Breeding out of old Fought COCKS. 



TRUTH or Goodnefs muft be allowed to 

 be the beft and moft valuable Qualificati- 

 on belonging to a Game Cock, and what every 

 Breeder fhould endeavour to attain to ; yet the 

 true Way and Method of arriving to it is often- 

 times miftaken, and in a particular Manner, fo 

 by breeding out of old fought Cocks ; nay, 

 fonie are fo fond of this Way of breeding, that 

 they rather chufe to make ufe of one which 

 has been fufficiently cut by Way of Trial, than 

 they would a freflione, and look- upon it as the 

 moft certain Way of breeding, which in my O- 

 pinion is quite the reverie ; for when Nature is 

 almoft worn out and exhaufted either by Time 

 or too frequent Engagements, itisimpofiible the 

 Iffue proceeding from lach Cocks ihould. have 

 much Vigour, Life, or Activity, and this is 

 the Reafon, in a great Meafure, that we meet 

 with fo many idle, flack mettled Cocks, or ra- 

 ther foolhardy, much fitter for a Pot than the 

 Pic j but tho' I am far from advifing any one to 



breed 



