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Creating the English Bull Terrier

Bull Baiting
The Gentleman's Sport
"After a coming Bull-baiting had been advertised,
the bull, decorated with flowers or coloured ribbons
would be paraded round the streets of the town,
and the dog which pulled off the favours in the
subsequent baiting would be especially cheered by
the spectators. The parade ended, the bull, with a
rope tied round the root of his horns, would be
fastened to a stake with an iron ring in it, situated in
the centre of the ring."
 from Chamber's Book of Days