PRACTICAL FALCONRY. 7 
hawks sometimes decline to take the smallest notice of the dead 
lure, and must in that case be taken down with the live one. 
Mr. Pells will provide bells ; the worst of them is that they soon 
lose their tone, unless the falconer cares to be at the trouble to take 
them off after hawking ; they are injured, I think, on the block. I 
bought some excellent little ferret bells the other day at Malvern, 
one of which I have now on a tiereel. It is possible to make bells 
out of one piece of metal, but I have never been fortunate enough 
to get such. Neither could I ever find any small enough for merlins. 
They are fastened to the hawk’s legs (one to each hawk) by small 
pieces of leather called bewits. Take a thin strip two or three 
inches in length, cut to a point at each end. Pass it through the 
proper part in the bell. Rather near one end of the strip cut a slit 
(call it the “short ”’), not so near the other end cut another slit (call 
it the “long”). Put the leather round the hawk’s leg; pass the 
“short” through the “ long,” and the “long ” through the “ short.” 
Draw tightly. 
