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Show ' Old-Time School Barbarism. For centuries cock-fighting was encouraged en-couraged in English schools. Fitz-Stephen Fitz-Stephen in tho twelfth century mentions men-tions It as an amusement of Londoners London-ers and that yearly at Shrovetide tho boys of every school brought cocks to their schoolmasters and all tho forenoon fore-noon was spent In school witnessing those birds fight. As late as 1790 the lncomo of tho schoolmaster of Apple-cross, Apple-cross, In Itoss-shlre, was drawn partially par-tially from cock-fight dues. Down to 1816, at least, there was an annual ex- hibltlon of cock-fighting at io Man- I Chester grammar school. |