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to catch the bladder which, on his approaching, 

 is jerked to the other side, thus rendering his 

 attempts fruitless. Or have you noticed some 

 man with a cricket ball throwing it as far as 

 he could, and a dog pursuing its flight at full 

 speed, and having picked it up bringing it to 

 the thrower to be again thrown and again pur- 

 sued. If you have, these are dog fighters 

 training their dogs, so far as wind and bodily 

 exertion goes, in preparation for some coming 

 dog fight ; they are thus training their own 

 dog, or the dog of some one who has not 

 time, inclination, or the requisite knowledge to 

 do it themselves ; for in a regular dog fighting 

 mateh it is as necessary for a dog to be in 

 the finest state of wind the animal can be 

 brought to, as it is for the race horse. Such 

 men are usually characters who get their bread, 

 or at least a part of it, by training dogs, 

 fighting them, and keeping them for sale ; 



many of them of a class that add to their 

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