52 ART AND PRACTICE OF HAWKING 



fastened by their leashes to the frame. The man with the 

 cadge (whom in these days you will not address by his right 

 title, unless you wish him to give you a month's notice) will, if 

 he is a sharp fellow, so carry the cadge that all or most of the 

 hawks upon it face the wind. On windy days — and at rook- 

 hawking time it is mostly pretty windy — the cadge should 

 be rested as much as possible under the lee of some shelter, 

 generally a rick. All hawks very much detest a wind ; and 

 should not be unnecessarily exposed to it. In fact, trained 

 hawks must be, in this and in all other things, whether at home 

 or in the field, subjected to as little vexation and annoyance 

 as can be. Like other creatures, they have tempers of their 

 own — sometimes very queer ones ; and they have enough to 

 put up with, as it is, when trained, without any extra trials 

 that can fairly be spared them. A cadge is sliown in the 

 illustration. 



A still greater luxury for the field, especially in rook- 

 hawking, is the hawk-van, which is a sort of omnibus, fitted 

 with screen-perches, and hung on very easy springs. In it are 

 conveyed the hawks which are not for the time being in use, 

 and also spare lures and other furniture and properties, not 

 forgetting the luncheon-basket. Such a vehicle will be too 

 pretentious, as well as too costly, for most private individuals, 

 but it is used successfully by the Old Hawking Club, whose 

 excellent arrangements and methods of training and managing 

 hawks will be repeatedly noticed in these pages. 



The box - cadge is a very simple apparatus used for the 

 transport of hawks by train or other wheeled conveyance. It 

 is nothing more than a frame resembling the body of a box — 

 very often a box itself — without the lid. The four upper edges 

 of the sides are padded to form perches. Holes are bored in 

 the sides an inch or two below, through which the leashes can 

 be passed and made fast. In the bottom of the box is sawdust 

 to catch the mutes ; and the hawks. are put on, as naturally they 

 would be, facing outwards, with their tails towards the inside of 

 the box. You will be surprised, if you have never seen it tried, 

 how small a box will accommodate six or eight great big hawks 

 sitting in this simple fashion. By the bye, the box-cadge 

 should be heavily weighted, to prevent upsetting or jolting, 

 in case any hawk should unluckily bate off. 



The writer of these pages has invented an apparatus which 

 may be called a pole-cadge, and will attempt to describe it, 

 because in his own experience he has found it very useful and 



