[Footnote 370: These dogs were only a moderate size.] [Footnote 371: If too sharp, the bull's horns were covered with wooden sheaths.] [Footnote 372: Misson.] This, however, was not always the case. Look at the other side:-- Curs'd dog, the bull reply'd, no more I wonder at thy thirst of gore; For thou (beneath a butcher train'd, Whose hands with cruelty are stain'd, His daily murders in thy view) Must, like thy tutor, blood pursue. Take then thy fate. With goring wound At once he lifts him from the ground: Aloft the sprawling hero flies, Mangled he falls, he howls, and dies.[373] [Footnote 373: _Gay_, Fable 9.] Here is a refinement of cruelty: 'At the _Bear Garden_ in _Hockley in the Hole_, 1710. This is to give notice to all Gentlemen, Gamsters, and Others, That on this present _Monday_ is a Match to be fought by two Dogs, one from _Newgate_ Market, against one of _Honey Lane_ Market, at a Bull, for a Guinea to be spent. Five Let goes out off hand, which goes fairest and farthest in Wins all; like wise a _Green Bull_ to be baited, which was never baited before, and a Bull to be turned lose with Fire works all over him; also a Mad Ass to be baited; With variety of Bull baiting and Bear baiting; and a Dog to be drawn up with Fire works.'[374] These novelties took, for a subsequent advertisement tells us that 'The Famous Bull of Fire works pleased the Gentry to Admiration.' Indeed, it must have been popular, for in an advertisement of the _Tatler_, Jan. 3/5, 1709 (1710), we find: 'This Day is published The Bull Baiting, or Sach----ll[375] dressed up in Fire works; lately brought over from the Bear Garden in Southwark, and exposed for the Diversion of the Citizens of London: at 6_d._ a piece.' This book, however, is very dreary fun. [Footnote 374: _Harl. MSS._ 5931, 46.] [Footnote 375: Sacheverell.]