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for rest. The first day, the first faz is 20 minutes, the second 30, the third 4o, the 
fourth 50, and the fifth 60. On the second day (or any Aan? after the fifth) every panz 
is 60 minutes. On the first day, the match may commence at any time between two 
and four o'clock, usually the second hour. On the second day the match must com- 
mence at two o'clock. An antagonist failing to come to the scratch when time is called, 
or, to turn up at the correct time loses a Jau?. Say A. and B. make a match for five 
pani. A.sees his cock getting the worst of the encounter; he claims a fawz. The fight 
is stopped for twenty minutes while both pitters spout their cocks, etc. A., however, 
has now only four pai to his credit, while B. has still five. The cocker who first loses 
his five Aavz is counted the loser, and has to pay. Though the duration of each Janz is 
fixed by scale, no limit is fixed for each round in fighting. Written rules are not drawn 
up; custom alone rules|—with a dal6a—|dalba is a weak barn-door cock or an inferior 
game-cock, kept for a young game-cock to bully. Cu¢tha@ is a quail kept for a fighting 
quail to bully|to see whether it has improved in condition or not. If it has improved, 
then keep it at this weight and condition. If it has disimproved, fight it again, fat, thin, 
and medium, and observe in which condition it fights best and keep it in that condition. 
Every week increase the number of rounds with the da/éa by one, till the number of 
eleven Jani is reached, which is called by cockers /am. 
‘An ointment for dressing is compounded—{I have omitted the tedious details of 
weights and measures (W.B.)|—of zeodary, cassia bark, rennet, pomegranate-rind, 
white cumin seeds, Indian madder, gall oak, betel-leaf juice, and a ‘sufficiency of 
double-distilled wine.’ Grind these all up, beat in the wine and betel-leaf juice and 
anoint the cock’s face. | 
“Just before battle give a cock the following: syrup of sweet pomegranates, 
preserved apples and quinces, barberries, cucumber seeds, endine chicory, and de/ fruit. 
Grind, add the pomegranate syrup; roll into pills, cover with gold and silver leaf, and 
give to the cock; after one ghavi [about half-an-hour] go to the cock-pit and fight your 
cock. If you find a lack of fire in the cock, give it half a fresh ja/edz [a sweetmeat made 
of milk, flour and sugar], pepper-corns, and the egg of a red fowl, mixed with the juice 
of garlic and the juice of green ginger. Next, tying up the spurs with cloth, and then 
spouting the bird, make it fight. It then rests with the cocker to make or mar the 
bird. 
“In the author's opinion the best birds have thick, powerful beaks, white, as 
described above; the eyes white, like lustrous pearls; large jaws and head; a small 
comb; the ¢#fau bone is conspicuous; the neck short and the neck-bones small, fine, 
and the ridges small, fleshless, and strong as an iron rod; and the back broad like the 
stone of a hand-mill; the feathers spotted, and beautiful, like the eye of a peacock’s 
feather. The bird should be handsome, and shapely, and active, and quick as a cobra 
in movement ; and in fighting it should be Zama-gir [attacking any part of an adversary’s 
body with the beak], and retiring after a blow, so as to avoid its adversary’s counter; 
and should it receive a blow, it should so retaliate as to lay its adversary at its feet in 
the throes of death, fluttering as though its throat had been cut. 
“To make the young cockerel strong and fit for battle. When the cockerel is four 
months old the cocker should separate it from the mother and make it familiar with 
him, and give it daily two almonds mixed with @/a@ [coarse wheaten flour], and feed it 
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