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keeping till next year, though it is difficult to buy one when the 

 flio-ht is in full swino- and each hawk is earning at the rate of perhaps 

 half a sovereign a day. The bird is held in the hand, and eagerly 

 watches the ground. The instant a quail rises he is violently flung 

 at it, as if he were a stone. It is an amusing and interesting scene 

 to watch. 



TURKISH SPORTSMEN 



Over against Herekly, across twenty-eight miles of sea, lies Marmora 

 Island, inhabited principally by Greeks. The hillsides and tops are 

 planted with vines, and the whole island swarms with ^^^^.^ ^^^ 

 rabbits and red-legged partridges, of great size and partridge. 

 delicious flavour, due to the wild sage and thyme on 

 which they thrive till they are coated in fat. The villagers occasion- 

 ally shoot the game, but only when they can take a "sitting" shot, 

 and a sportsman with good legs, lungs and eyes can have a very 

 fair day's fun there in September or October. The heat, however, 



