PRACTICAL FALCONRY,. 25 
Your dog has found partridges in a tolerably open country—it is 
clearly a dead point (never mind if the country is not so very open)— 
and you have unhooded and cast off a tiercel. The hawk has been 
taught to “ wait on” to the lure, and to the few pigeons you have 
thrown up under him, and therefore he follows you to the point. 
Don’t be in too great w hurry; let him have time to get up; and 
when you think he wilt go no higher, and when his head 
is towards you, put up the birds as nearly under him as may 
be. Perhaps he will take one at once, or he will “put them 
in” (i.e., into cover), or will kill at some distance. If he kill at 
once, keep everyone back but yourself, dogs too, and go up quietly, 
and yet with confidence. Kneel down, or retire a little if he is 
nervous ; indeed, should he seem fidgety, let him plume and break 
into the bird a little (and this will probably take longer than you 
imagine). Then lift the partridge firmly in your left hand, the hawk 
remaining upon it; secure him, feed him up with beef, or the hot 
leg of a chicken, given under the wing of the quarry ; then hood him, 
and fly him no more that day. If he appear quite steady, pulling at 
the head or neck, take him at once. 
But we will now suppose that he has put the birdsinto some covert. 
You had markers, no doubt, in the probable course of flight, though 
a partridge flight is seldom very far. Let them rush, and do you 
rush, dogs and all, to the spot, and get at least one of the birds up 
again while the hawk remains overhead. There is no excuse in 
partridge hawking for not having a hawk that will make his point, 
as they say, over “‘put-in” quarry, because the distance is short 
enough for some one to be up in time with a spaniel, or long stick 
at least, to get the birds out. If this can be done before the hawk 
has left, for the first few times he puts in, he will gain confidence, 
and will ultimately wait with considerable patience, even should 
you be slow in your movements. In grouse hawking matters are 
different, for the flight is often a great deal too far, and the ground 
