Game to the Death

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 141, 4 June 1887, Page 4

Game to the Death

"The most beautiful bird in tke \rcikl." saiM a gentleman yesterday, *' is t-he game cock. I inako no ox- i t-opuoß whatever. The most beauti- j ;i -rpeciniras of the breed were kr.ovrn i ■s 1 ii\a St.one Fonce before the war. ! 'V-'hv. .-ur. I once saw a lien of this • ;;•!• :1 mount iuto the air after a hawk J ,ii 1 (v;ir\pel hiai to droj> her chicken." •■ S;.eakiug of ehickeus," remarked !. :,i:v\ Koatioman, "I used to have a :•■: ■;?.TM-col'.'V:V«e.d bantam, that was .:. ui'»v jmu raiy of your gamo cliickons, •:u •.oaiil fight an.yth'iug on the earth, ".' a five, seen luni stampede a drove of cattle going- along the road "by flying in a euwY -..face. I lhave seen liiin attack a boiso. He never /was wliipi,i;•:!, bijegev. chickens always flew over i;i'n',-but, he never failed to hit. He's c->asl-now. He -killed himself." y :t :\\'eil, you know when Barnum'is s'l iow caaie through here it had wag-g-sris with large mirrors on their sides. -One' of ; these w«ggons passed my h mise"- aiul the little bantam was sitting on 'the fence. He saw his refi^ytion ia the waggon and flaw at it, striking the glass like a bullet. He nm.-t have broken every bone in his y-amo little -body."