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better than for the former ; but for the noble art of fal- 

 conry, the mystery of rivers, he is the best of all. 

 A.vium facile, princeps / easily the Topsawyer of the 

 Birds of flight, unless it be his cousin german heronshaw, 

 whom the princely Dane knew from a hawk, when the 

 wind was nor-nor-west. 



