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better than for the former; but for the noble art of fal- 
conry, the mystery of rivers, he is the best of all. 
Avium facile princeps ; easily the Topsawyer of the 
birds of flight, unless it be his cousin german heronshaw, 
whom the princely Dane knew from a hawk, when the 
wind was nor-nor-west. 
