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descriptive of classes of fowls are 

 used for the classes to which they 

 apply. We have, then, the follow- 

 ing general types of fowls : (i) game 

 types, (2) laying types, (3) meat 

 types, (4) general-purpose types, 

 (5) deformed types, (6) bantams. 



Game types. While, as has been 

 said, it is not probable that fowls 

 were domesticated for the sport of 

 fighting the cocks, it is certain that 

 in domestication the pugnacity and 

 gameness of the cock led to the 

 early development of a fighting 

 type, possessed of great courage, 



strength, and endurance, of very 

 FIG. T.2Q. Aseel Game cock. (Photo- r -, r .-, , 



graph from Dr. H.P.Clarke, Indian- compact form, close-feathered or 



apolis, Indiana) short-feathered, with no superfluous 



appendages. Ancient records of 



various kinds hieroglyphics, coins, vases show the wide dis- 

 tribution of this type. From early times to within a century, 

 cockfighting seems to 

 have been everywhere 

 a popular pastime. In 

 modern times it has been 

 outlawed among civi- 

 lized and humane peo- 

 ples. Though not yet 

 wholly suppressed, even 

 in England and Amer- 

 ica, public sentiment is 

 so strongly against it, 

 the risks of detection are 

 so great, and the pen- 

 alties are so impartially 

 applied, that even the 



advocates of the sport 

 recognize that it must 



FIG. 330. Old English Game cock. (Photo- 

 graph from owner, W. F. Liedtke, Meriden, 

 Connecticut) 



