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thought it was " the devil himself," and being 

 frightened, called to a man, who, with 

 incredible stupidity and callousness, fetched a 

 gun, and shot the poor raven in the road. 



Dan hada pair of Cormorants, all one summer, 

 which soon became ridiculously tame. There 

 is a smooth turf slope from the lawn to the 

 main drawing-room window. Up this the 

 cormorants would walk, and were sometimes 

 found, most unwelcome guests, sitting on the 

 backs of the drawing-room chairs, and refusing 

 stoutly to be evicted. They soon cleared off 

 some of the stock of fish in that part of the 

 the river which runs close by the Abbey. 



The Vociferous Sea-eagle from Senegal, 

 whose portrait both in pen and ink and water 

 colour are here, was a great favourite of its 

 master and has often been taken for an airing 

 about the grounds on his arm. It has lived six 

 years at Mottisfont, and is a most beautiful 

 creature, with a white head and breast, a bright 

 chestnut belly, and back of slaty blue, with 

 chestnut trimmings. It is very tame and 

 fearless. All the portraits here given of the 

 eagles, other than those from drawings by 

 their owner, show the birds with leather 

 ** jesses " on, like hawks, evidence in itself 

 that they could all be handled and treated as 



