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boxing-gloves tied on their heels. On Tuesday 

 they got their medicine— the very best Turkey 

 rhubarb and magnesia, about the thickness of 

 your first finger, in fact, more than would 

 quickly operate on you or me ; next day senna 

 tea and sparring. They got very much reduced 

 by Friday — all the fat out of them. After that 

 they give them new milk, and bread made of 

 eggs, loaf sugar, etc., in fact, everything that is 

 good, the very best malt barley, and so on. 

 For the old cockpit they used to feed at different 

 public-houses — one was in Pack Horse Lane, 

 another in the Castle Lane, in fact all the lanes 

 in English Street, Carlisle. They fought single 

 battles for £5 or £10, and what they called 

 four mains, that is, four cocks ; of course, the 

 winner had to get two battles. 



