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“ Tf the jaws be fleshy, or if the wattles are large, and it is desired to remove them, 
then extract the oil of 642/awan and rub it on the cock’s face, and if it please God this 
defect will be removed and will not return. If the comb is too large and it is desired to 
cut it off, then, after fighting, cut the comb immediately to the size desired, applying 
to the wound the white web of a small spider, or else staunch with small feathers plucked 
from under the cock’s wings: until a recovery takes place do not spout the cock. Then 
take a quarter of a piece of tumeric and add half a nux vomica nut and a little edible 
lime and heat over the fire, and plaster the mixture thickly on the cock’s face ; if it is the 
cold season, keep the cock in the sun, if the hot, in the shade. The cock must not be fed 
during the day, but in the evening after fomentation, when it should be fed on “a/wa or 
on bread dipped in fresh milk. In the evening the cock should be fomented with a pad 
dipped in a liquid decoction. 
“ After fifteen days, when the cock has recovered from its wound, let it be fought for 
two fant with the unmuzzled da/ba, and act as described above. After twenty-two days 
let the trainer fight his cock three az and act as before. After forty days let him fight 
four fanz, and lastly, after an interval, five fauz. After fighting five Jazz, he should 
foment the cock’s face with a small bag of Za/wa, and dipping a pad into the hot liquid 
application, he should foment the loins, the hip-joints, both the shoulder-joints, the 
breast, and between the legs as described above. After this evening fomentation, he 
should feed the cock on Za/wa, or on bread dipped in fresh milk. In the morning he 
should again foment in the same manner, and, mixing some of the best szzssz in wine, 
should heat it on the fire and paint the cock’s face thickly with it. Increase gradually 
the number of Aauz up to eleven, acting as just described. Then fight your cock for a 
wager with some one, having first put it on dry food, and please God the cock of your 
antagonist will be unable to face yours. 
‘Just before fighting your cock, you (being in a state of ceremonial purity) should 
repeat once into each of its ears the words, ‘“‘ Allah the Immutable,” and exhale your 
breath, and if it please God Most High your cock will never deteriorate. 
“Should your cock show signs of flight, then give it this corrective :— 
“Musk, fabashiy, small cardamoms ; pound and put in a paper. Take of juice of 
Indian sweet fennel seed two ounces and put it in a vessel. When you see that your 
cock intends flight, first give it two ma@shas of the powdered medicine, and then two 
tolas of the juice. Your cock will go mad and will never quit the field. 
“When you wish to cease fighting your cock, and to pair him with a hen, do so, but 
pair him with a mature hen, but this must be in the warm days of spring. You must 
not mate your cock with a young hen.” 
LEGENDS AND SUPERSTITION 
Since the first domestic cock crowed, mankind has admired, hated or feared it, has 
thought of it with reverence, with dislike or with superstition. We have space for 
mention of but one or two of the legends which have arisen concerning it. 
One Al-Qazwini, who died about 1283, wrote an Arabic work, the 47a 7b-ul- 
Makhlugat, or the ‘World of Wonders,” and has this to say about the domestic cock :— 
‘The cock is the most lustful and vainest of birds. It heralds the dawn. One of 
