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times, these might be named the first, second, and third 
Growings. 
Even if we suppose that cocks were not allowed to come 
within the walls of the city, the house of Caiaphas the high 
priest was very near the walls ; and if there was a cock be- 
longing to any person without the walls, and there might 
be many persons who had cocks, the crowings of one or 
other of these might be distinctly heard in the house of 
Caiaphas. 
It is a curious circumstance, that mankind have rather 
been late in taming and keeping domestic fowls. They are 
supposed to have come at first from the banks of the Phasis ; 
or, at least, from countries south and east of the Euxine 
Sea; and their value increased, as men came to know 
the sweetness and excellence of their flesh, and the prodi- 
gious number of eggs, which they laid, above what is neces- 
sary to continue the race. 
1 cannot conclude these remarks, without expressing 
my unqualified abhorrence of cock-fighting. The practice, 
followed by some Britons, of pitting cocks against one an- 
other, till they are all killed but one, whatever be their 
number, is savage in the extreme ; and that of the Suma- 
trans, who stake their wives and children, their brothers 
and sisters, on the result of the battle between their own 
cocks and those of their antagonists, is barbarity and insa- 
nity united. 
At the first school that ever I attended, as many boys as 
pleased were desired to bring cocks on Candlemas day, and 
as few brought them, the deficiency was made up by the 
colliers of the village ; but, if we wanted cocks, our attend- 
ance was indispensable, and there were we condemned, for 
six or seven hours, to witness these spirited creatures beat- 
ing and destroying one another, — an excellent lesson, no 
doubt, to be taught young children, of consideration and 
mercy towards the inferior animals ! 
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