Kathleen: "I've a theory that all social events fall under one of two broad categories; balloon ascensions and bear baiting. According to their pretensions, of course. Last evening was a bear-baiting posing as a balloon ascension."
BEARBAITING, the medieval sport of setting of dogs on a bear or a bull chained to a stake by the neck or leg. Bears would often also be blinded. Popular from the 12th to the 19th century, when they were banned as inhumane, these spectacles were usually staged at theatre-like arenas known as bear gardens. In England many large groups of bears were kept expressly for this most barbaric and obscene purpose. Contemporary records reveal, for example, that 13 bears were provided for an entertainment attended by Queen Elizabeth I in 1575.
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