PRACTICAL FALCONRY, a7 
careless way, or you have, at any rate, failed to make her like the 
approach of your hand by forgetting to give her dainty bits 
from it while she was pulling at something pretty tough on 
the lure. You may also have allowed her to fly away with 
pieces of meat which you have imperfectly tied to the lure, or she 
may have carried a light lure and gorged herself from it. All these 
things provoke carrying. The greatest pains must be taken about 
them, for you can have no peace with a carrying hawk. If she 
should drag, but not attempt to fly with the pelt (or captured 
quarry), the possibility is that she does not know she can fly with 
it. She has fortunately been used to heavy lures, and thinks, after 
all, that she must feed where she is. Let us hope she will not eat of 
the tree of knowledge. Still, even dragging is not the thing; in some 
hawks it never occurs at all, and, with proper treatment, it will 
pass away with almost any. The best hawks I have had, the 
highest flyers, those free from screaming, the most noble in every 
way, have never seemed to know that there was such w thing as 
carrying; at any rate, it never occurred to them that any respect- 
able peregrine could be such a beast as to attempt it. 
I have said something about partridge hawking, but not perhaps 
quite enough. I have assumed that it is done with the tiercel as far 
as Ihave gone, and I confess my experience leads me rather—but 
not very much—to prefer the male bird in this sport. Hoe is lighter 
and quicker at the turn than the falcon, and possibly gets into his 
speed a little sooner, if he is not high when the birds rise. But put 
me up a rather small falcon in a little breeze, a hawk that has been 
flown at grouse before, and that every fine day ; and if she is not as 
good as any tiercel, the difference is not in the sex, but in some 
accident. 
If birds are very wild, and won’t lie to a point at all, you have 
your certain remedy with a high-flying hawk. Simply put him 
up before you enter the field, and when he is at his pitch 
