1 58 HAWKING. 



could come up, the lures were thrown out, and the 

 Falcons were allowed to make a meal upon the 

 Pigeons, having been kept fasting for some hours 

 before. 



The Pigeons were placed for them on the body of 

 the Heron. ; and after they were satisfied, they were 

 again hooded and put up for the day. The next cast 

 of Hawks consisted of two younger birds; and when 

 let loose at another Heron, they flew up to it very 

 well. But the Heron was an old one, and was sup- 

 posed to have been attacked before; for the moment 

 he saw his enemies below, he began to soar into the 

 air, and set up a loud croak, and the two young 

 Falcons, not so experienced as the two first older 

 birds, would not attack the Heron, but after flying 

 about for some time left him. Upon this one of the 

 falconers set up a peculiar call, to which the birds 

 were accustomed, when one of them, from a great 

 height in the air, immediately closed his wings, and 



darting down to the man who called him, was taken 



& ' 



in hand. The other Falcon, however, was not so 

 well trained and obedient, but continued to sail 

 about in the air. 



At length a Heron approached, and she attacked 

 it, but without success, and soon left it ; at last a 

 third Heron crossed, which she attacked, and, after 

 a short struggle, succeeded in bringing to the ground, 

 in the same manner as in the first case. This last 

 Heron had its wing broken, and the falconer killed 

 it, but the other was taken alive, and afterwards 

 turned out before a single Falcon, which struck it 

 down in a minute. It was said, that if a Heron had 

 been once taken by a Falcon, it would never after- 



