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fight; and if he does make fight, you can handle, and by his making 

 fight it will renew all the counting from the first, and if the disabled 

 coc> should make fight last it is his count. 



AnT. II. — The judges cut the heels off, and if all is right you must 

 get leady for the next battle; you, are allowed twenty minutes to be 

 in th; pit with the next cock. The judges* are to keep the time. 



AzT. 12. — All outside bets go as the main stakes. 



Aft. 13. — Any man not paying bets that he lost will not be allowed 

 in any pit in Philadelphia hereafter. 



WESTERN RULES. 



Rule i. — All birds shall be weighed, give or take two ounees, shall 

 le a match or otherwise if parties see fit to make it so. 



Rule 2. — All heels to be fought with shall round from socket to 

 point, or as near so as can be made. 



Rule 3. — When a stag is matched against a cock, the stag will be 

 entitled to four ounces advance in weight. 



Rule 4. — It shall be fair for handlers to pull feathers and sling blood, 

 ©r any other thing to help the bird between handlings. 



Rule 5. — It shall be foul for A or B to touch their birds while fight- 

 ing unless one is fast to the other, but if a bird should unfortunately 

 fasten himself with his own heel it shall be fair to handle, but on no 

 other consideration, and either handler violating or deviating from 

 the above rules shall lose his fight. 



Rule '6. — Thirty seconds shall be allowed between each and every 

 round. 



Rule 7. — In counting, the bird showing fight last shall be entitled 

 to the count, but if his handler refuse to take the count the opposite 

 handler shall be entitled to it. 



Rule 8. — The handler having the count shall pit his bird in his 

 respective place when time is called, and count ten, then handle three 

 more successive times; when time is called again, the birds shall be 

 placed in the center ot the pit, breast to breast, and forty more count- 

 ed, and if the bird not having the count refuse to fight, the one hav- 

 ing it shall be the winner. 



