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by keeping the hawk without hot meat, and is cured in the way 

 which may be conjectured. 



Prynne is a malady of the eyes, for which it is recommended 

 to bathe them with the juice of daisy leaves, or a decoction of 

 powdered egg-shell, yolk of hard-boiled egg, and a quarter as 

 much rock alum. 



For a bruise Bert advises clarified honey, boiled with half as 

 much stone pitch. 



Some old writers declare that a hawk's appetite may be im- 

 proved by steeping her meat in claret and the yolk of an egg ; that 

 when she is slow at casting, or in digesting her food, she should 

 have a mustard -seed made up with honey into a pill. In such 

 cases she should certainly have plenty of tirings ; and fresh water 

 should be kept within her reach, so that she may sip it at any 

 time if so inclined. Sweet things are good for a goshawk, which 

 is something of a sweet-tooth. A good scouring for a sparrow- 

 hawk is pounded sugar-candy and butter mixed with beef. 

 Sugar-candy and olive oil are both good purgatives for getting 

 rid of the internal fat or grease. For giving a tone to the 

 stomach, cloves, nutmeg, and ginger are beneficial. And the most 

 celebrated of all ingredients for compounding hawk medicines 

 is " mummy." One very distinguished modern falconer, having 

 read in the ancient books endless references to this medicament, 

 wrote to another equally distinguished authority to ask, " What is 

 mummy ? " The answer, which is too good not to be repeated 

 here, was, " Mummy is mummy." That is perhaps as much as 

 the greatest Egyptologist can say ! 



