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" Also a bear to be let loose at the same time, and a cat to be tied to the bull's tail. Note : The doors will be opened at four, as the sports begin at five exactly, because the diversion will last long, and the days grow short. "
Journal of the Derbyshire Archaeological and Natural History Society - Page 141
by Derbyshire Archaeological Society - 1906
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THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURTY

ALEXANDRA ANDTEWS - 1856 - 370 pages
...dressed up with fireworks over him, and turned loose with the man in the ground. Also a bear to be let loose at the same time, and a cat to be tied to the...tail. Note. — The doors will be opened at four, as the sports begin at five exactly, because the diversion will last long, and the days grow short."...
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Report from the Select Committee on Theatrical Licenses and Regualtions ...

Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on Theatrical Licenses and Regulations - 1866 - 430 pages
...place; likewise a dog to be drest up with fireworks over him, and turned loose with ihe bull amongst the men in the ground. Also a bear to be turned loose at the same time, and a cat to be ty'd to the bull's tail." The powerful body of influential and thinkingm^n who now form ihe middle...
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Appletons' Journal, Volume 4

1878 - 612 pages
...and turned loose in the game-place, a dog to be dressed up with fireworks over him, a bear to be let loose at the same time, and a cat to be tied to the bull's tail, a mad bull dressed up with fireworks to be baited." Prizefighting, boxing-matches between women, and...
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Hints on the Culture of Ornamental Plants in Ireland

John Adair - 1878 - 160 pages
...turned loose in the game-place ; a dog to be dressed up with fireworks over him ; a bear to be let loose at the same time; and a cat to be tied to the bull's tail; a mad bull, dressed up with fireworks, to be baited." And even Canning and Peel opposed abolition of...
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A History of England in the Eighteenth Century

William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1878 - 660 pages
...and turned loose in the game place, a dog to be dressed up with fireworks over him, a bear to be let loose at the same . time, and a cat to be tied to the bull's tail, a mad bull dressed) up with "fireworks to be baited.' 1 Such amusements were min-j gled with prize-fighting,...
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A History of England in the Eighteenth Century, Volume 1

William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1878 - 642 pages
...turned loose in the game place, a dog to be dressed up with fireworks over him, a bear to be let looso at the same time, and a cat to be tied to the bull's tail, a mad bull dressed up with fireworks to be baited.' 1 Such amusements were mingled with prize-fighting,...
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English Literature in the Eighteenth Century

Alfred Hix Welsh - 1880 - 182 pages
...loose in the game place, a dog to be dressed up with fire-works over him, a bear to be let loose ati the same time, and a cat to be tied to the bull's tail, a mad bull dressed up with fire-works to be baited.' Such amusements were mingled with prize-fighting,...
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A History of English Prose Fiction from Sir Thomas Malory to George Eliot

Bayard Tuckerman - 1882 - 356 pages
...and turned loose in the game place, a dog to be dressed up with fireworks over him, a bear to be let loose at the same time, and a cat to be tied to the bull's tail, a mad bull dressed up with fireworks to be baited."3 Such amusements were interspersed with cockfighting,...
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Dying at the Top: Or, The Moral and Spiritual Condition of the Young Men of ...

Joseph Waddell Clokey - 1890 - 136 pages
...and turned loose in the game place, a dog to be dressed up with fire-works over him, a bear to be let loose at the same time, and a cat to be tied to the bull's tail; a mad bull dressed up with fire-works to be baited." In 1712, in London, young men from the nobility...
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England and the English in the Eighteenth Century: Chapters in the ..., Volume 1

William Connor Sydney - 1891 - 384 pages
...dressed up with fireworks over him, and turned loose with the man in the ground. Also a bull to be let loose at the same time, and a cat to be tied to the...tail. Note. — The doors will be opened at four, as the sports begin at five exactly, because the diversion will last long, and the days grow short....
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