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What the bridle is to the horse, that the hood is to the 

 falcon j it is the only means by which she is controlled ; with- 

 out it, so nervous and excitable is her temperament that she 

 would, even if trained and fairly tame, dash herself from the 



FIG. 2. Indian hood 



perch at every strange sound or sight, and after an exhausting 

 struggle would not, perhaps, recover her equanimity for a whole 

 day. To take her to the field on the hand, or to travel with 

 her from place to place, among sights and people most strange 



FIG. 3. Rufter hood 



and alarming to her, would be an impossibility. With the 

 hood on her head she sits like a stuffed bird ; she can be 

 handled, passed from one person to another, carried for 

 hundreds of miles, and taken through streets, railway stations, 



