| Show cricket fighting in china the chinese aro are inveterate gamblers and never lose an opportunity to bet no matter how trivial the cause may be one of their great eions Is cricket fighting the crickets being caught fed and trained carefully as ip 1 a blooded horse there Is a fixed diet for them part of their food ona sting of honey and boiled chestnuts if it they get sick they are fed with mosquitoes prior to fighting their weight is ascertained and duly recorded there being a fixed regulation as to in their size and weight on the door of the house in which tho the light Is to take place the record of each cricket Is pasted up and the owner of the w m inner gets ten per cent of all the bets the cricket pit Is a low tub placed on u table and after meigh weighing ing the combatants are put in it and tickled with straws until they rush at each other with loud chirrups and fight until one of them theta Is killed hilled good fighting crickets are very valuable and are often sold for large sums |
