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cocks he many a time found that old Joe, with Mr. Leigh's birds, car- 

 ried off the cash and had won the majority of the battles at the end of 

 the week's fighting. It was once proposed to match a great main of 

 those cocks, ten years before the Earl gave it up, against Bllyse, at 

 Chester, but the Earl and his friends would never risk the beating 

 that was pretty sure to be given them, as it had for a number of years 



EARL DERBY GAME. 



to all comers, both from England and Ireland, including the noted 

 birds of Benson, Walker, etc. In fact, when or wherever Bllyse 

 fought he proved invincible. Philips cheerfully fed for him, and he 

 seldom put out more than one thousand chickens a year, or only one- 

 third the number of the Earl. Clark's birds generally made short 

 work of all that came against them, and when pitted against the 

 Derbys it was always two to one on Clark, Again, many who ought 



