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likely to become small quagmires. Perhaps the most service- 

 able bath is a common flat bedroom bath, sunk into a cavity 

 in the ground, and removable at will. A pretty tall block 

 or for short -winged hawks a bow-perch, should be placed 

 near the bath, so that the bather, having finished her ablutions 

 may at once jump on to it. 



In some places it is possible to indulge the hawks with a 

 natural bath. When there is in the neighbourhood a stream 

 of clean water with a sandy or gravelly bottom and shelving 

 banks, the hawk may be carried down to a suitable part of 

 the bank, the block set up, and the creance attached. She 

 may be left on the block while the falconer retires to a short 

 distance, and will come back, when bathed, to her post. After 

 the bath, every hawk should remain out, bareheaded, for about 

 an hour, in the sun, if possible. She will busy herself first in 

 spreading her feathers to the sun and wind, and then in 

 pluming and arranging them — a work exceedingly agreeable 

 to those hawks which are particular about their own appear- 

 ance. 



The lure will be more particularly referred to later on. It 

 may suffice to say here that it is a rough imitation of some bird 

 — or, if the hawk is to be trained to ground-game, of some 

 beast — used as a bait to which the hawk is taught to come for 

 food. It is attached to a strong cord or thong a yard or more 

 long, and sometimes to a swivel. It is the invariable com- 

 panion of the falconer in the field, though never allowed to be 

 seen by the hawk, except when she is required to come to it. 

 The lure should be a sort of magnet, operating to draw the 

 hawk towards it as surely as iron will attract a magnetised 

 needle. 



A cadge is a most necessary apparatus when a man is the 

 possessor of more than one hawk. The orthodox and historic 

 cadge — such as one sees in representations of As You Like 

 It on the stage, or, as once I remember, at a Lord Mayor's 

 Show — is a circular or square or oblong frame of wood, three 

 or four feet across, having straps by which it can be suspended 

 from the shoulders of a man, who in classic phrase is termed a 

 " cadger," and who stands or walks in the middle, with the 

 frame surrounding him. At each corner of the frame is a small 

 jointed leg, which can be hooked up when the cadge is being 

 carried, and let down when it is to be deposited on the ground. 

 The bars which form the body of the frame are padded on the 

 top, and on these stand the hawks, hooded of course, and 



