Identifier: newbookofdogcomp01leig (find matches)
Title: The new book of the dog : a comprehensive natural history of British dogs and their foreign relatives, with chapters on law, breeding, kennel management, and veterinary treatment
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Leighton, Robert, 1859-1934
Subjects: Dogs
Publisher: London New York : Cassell
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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CRIB and ROSA (1817).HN SCOTT. cunning, or instinct, to scrape a hole inthe ground for themselves when one wasnot already provided, and would thenendeavour to toss the dog with his horns. The actual ring for bull-baiting stillremains in several places in England, suchas Hedon, Preston, Colchester, and Brading,in the Isle of Wight. Several towns, suchas Birmingham and Dorchester, retaintraces of the sport in the nomenclature ofthe streets. In the minute and carefully kept house-hold accounts of Sir Miles Stapleton, pub-lished in The Antiquary, reference is madeto the replacement of the ring for bull-baiting, and the stone to which it wasfixed, in the market-place of Bedale, Y< »rks,in 1661. Pepys mentions in his diary that he was 36 THE NEW BOOK OF THE DOG.
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BULL BROKE LOOSE (1820).From an Old Print. present at a bull-baiting in Southwark,on August 4th, 1666, when the bull tossedone of the dogs into the very boxes,describing the performance as a veryrude and nasty pleasure. Bull-baiting lingered with us much longerthan bear-baiting, and was a far moreuniversal sport throughout England. Thebaited bull was supposed to be more tenderfor eating than when killed in the orthodoxmanner, and in various boroughs the butcherswho sold unbaited bull beef were subjectedto considerable penalties. During theCommonwealth the sport was condemnedby the Puritans, but subsequent to theRestoration the pastime was generally re-sumed with even greater zest. In 1802 a Bill was introduced into Par-liament for the suppression of bull-baiting.but it was resisted, especially by Mr. Wind-ham, as part of a conspiracy by the Jacobinsand Methodists to render the people graveand serious, and to uproot constitutionalgovernment ! Notwithstanding the efforts of Wilber-force

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