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A “lure” is or may be, any portable object, on which a hawk 
has been fed—the dead body of the fowl it is more especially to be 
used to capture, is of course, a good “lure;” but as this cannot 
always be procured, and kept fresh, a dummy of iron, covered 
with tow and leather, a loop for a swivel, and wings of any sort 
(notably again those of the flight for which it is sought to use the 
hawk when trained) are attached, and strings by which pieces of 
meat, or bird, or even rabbit may be securely fastened. After 
being often and well fed on this, on the ground, the hawk in a 
creance or line is induced to come to it farther and farther, and 
when she will come to it, and will not leave it, but stick to it, and 
suffers herself to be taken up on it, rather than leave it, (of course 
being well rewarded thereon for her goodness) she is held up 
loose from all tether, and called to the “lure” from long distances. 
If a bird, dead or alive, of the sort aimed at, be then substituted 
for the “lure,” and she acts equally well therewith, little 
remains but to introduce her to the serious business for which 
you desire her services, for which nature has so well inclined 
her, and for which, or some such work, her parents taught, and 
she practised, the lesson required, before you obtained possession 
of her, but which now (sweet docile bird) she is equally ready 
to practise for you! Many a time has my eight years’ old 
falcon (and friend) “‘ Lady Jane Grey,” loudly uttered her note 
of chirping delight, by my side, when she has brought down the 
desire of her heart—a grouse: the very self-same cry as she 
whilom uttered thereon, in her wild state, when man was her 
most dreaded foe, to be avoided on sight, at a quarter of a mile 
off. 
The “lure,” in teaching a falcon to “ wait on” for game 
is withdrawn, and concealed, just before her approach. This 
disappointment, causes her to circle round (exactly what you 
want), to see where it is. Instantly it is produced. When 
game is found in the field the same is done, and on the hawk 
attaining any height it is flushed under her, and she is not long 
in making her stoop: and let us hope that her first few efforts 
will be successful, and that if so her master will reward her 
most liberally thereon. (He had far best do so in fact.) 
