FALCONRY IN BERWICKSHIRE. 



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able effort was made to revive hawking in England, and 

 about 1780 it had again become a common sport in Scot- 

 land.^ Mr. Baird, a younger brother of Sir David Baird of 

 Newbyth, in East-Lothian, kept Falcons in the early part 

 of the present century, and he sometimes got his Hawks 

 from their eyries on the coast of Berwickshire. Lady John 

 Scott-Spottiswoode of Spottiswoode informs me that amongst 

 her very earliest recollections are the occasional visits of 

 Mr. Baird to Spottiswoode, with his Hawks, where he flew 

 them at Grouse on the moors.^ 



The gun is now used to kill game of all kinds, and with 

 such skill that driven Grouse and Partridges are shot with 

 precision, even when flying at their utmost speed. 



Time is like a fashionable host, 

 That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand ; 

 And with his arms outsitretched as he would fly, 

 Grasps in the comer : welcome ever smiles, 

 And farewell goes out sighing. 



Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida. 



1 Falconry in the British Isles, by Francis H. Salvia and W. Broderick, 1855. 

 3 Information in a letter from Mr. P. Stormouth Darling, Kelso, dated the 10th 

 of April 1886. 



