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A teleological totem, the gallos are the transcendent symbol of the ordinary world of poultry.
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A teleological totem, the gallos are the transcendent symbol of the ordinary world of poultry.
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An adroit _monte_ player he was -- ready to do a little cheating upon occasions -- a capital judge of game "gallos," ever ready to stake his onzas upon a "main."
The White Chief A Legend of Northern Mexico Mayne Reid 1850
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During this second stage of the game, spectators sized up the gallos, deciding the odds for the match, and made private bets.
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Weapons selected, the handlers strode into the sacred territory of the plaza de gallos (arena) where the handler and his aide would gird the knife to the gallo's own blunted spur, lashing it with what appeared to be catgut (but probably was dental floss) with surgical precision, taking care not to slash himself with the razor-sharp blade, cleaning it with a halved lime.
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Cradled in specially-made cardboard valises, the gallos de combate were weighed, one by one, until each had been matched with an opponent of comparable weight.
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Los gallos are as much a metaphor for Mexico as maíz.
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Sure enough, these really were fighting cocks, and I found myself invited to Sunday's peleas de gallos (cockfights).
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What little sangre the gallos may have shed was unremarkable.
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Over 150 years ago, Fanny Calderón de la Barca, Mexico's version of Tocqueville, observed this phenomenon during a Mexican president's attendance at a major cockfight: "The gratifying spectacle may not infrequently be seen, of the president, leaning from his box in the plaza de gallos, and betting upon a cock, with a coatless, bootless, hatless and probably worthless ragamuffin in the pit."
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