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TUP RUNNING. A rural sport practised at wakes and fairs in Derbyshire; a ram, whose tail is well soaped and greased, is turned out to the multitude; any one that can take him by the tail, and hold him fast, is to have him for his own.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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Image imitating a page from an old document, text (as in main toot): TUP RUNNING. A rural sport practised at wakes and fairs in Derbyshire; a ram, whose tail is well soaped and greased, is turned out to the multitude; any one that can take him by the tail, and hold him fast, is to have him for his own. A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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    • 504DR ,
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    @TheVulgarTongue @histodons

    It isn't human entertainment if animals aren't terrorized, tortured and killed.
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    lydialurch ,
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    @TheVulgarTongue @histodons Why settle for an ordinary dull wake when your mourners could be chasing a greased up ram?

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