PRACTICAL FALCONRY. 1) 
much practical good in one way, for, do it as you will, the birds will 
most likely have to be taken up with the bow-net eventually. 
Still, it must rather tend than not to give them confidence, and to 
prevent “carrying” in after times. Very soon they will fly down to 
the lures on the ground, and eat eagerly. That will do. Open the 
doors and let them out. They will perhaps be hours before they 
leave. Mind they are not frightened just as they take théir depar- 
ture. Take care to be ready at the feeding times, on the lawn or in 
the neighbouring field, with your lures and whistle. Hight in the 
morning and six in the evening will do; but, as they getjolder, it is 
as well to feed them sooner in the morning, to prevent them preying 
much for themselves. ‘ 
The third case is rather difficult. Birds come to you which would 
fly for half a mile if you were to let them out. Well, I think still 
the platform. If possible, get someone to spend some time with 
them ; and the window had better be protected by perpendicular, not 
horizontal, bars of wood. They must not be let out till they know 
the lures thoroughly, though a good deal of time has been lost. Still 
they may make excellent birds. I would rather have one of them 
than three taken too early. If birds come with their feathers the full 
length, able to fly well, though it is difficult to know what has been 
done with them a week or two before you had them, and how it is 
possible they are so forward, they may be put on blocks on the lawn, 
tamed to a certain extent by carriage on the fist, even broken to the 
hood, and then turned out to hack. But they should be turned out 
to hack in a particular way. For two days before they are set at 
liberty give them a live pigeon at the block, in some place where the 
feathers will not be considered a nuisance—in the field near your 
garden for instance. I prefer white pigeons for the purpose. Let 
all the feathers remain. On the third day set the hawk at liberty— 
he not knowing it—while he is eating the first part of a third pigeon. 
This is easily done by having his jesses simply hooked to a spring 
