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What the bridle is to the horse, that the hood is to the 

 falcon ; it is the only means by which she is controlled ; with- 

 out it, so nervous and excitable is her temperament that she 

 would, even if trained and fairly tame, dash herself from the 



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Fig. 2. — Indian hood 



perch at every strange sound or sight, and after an exhausting 

 struggle would not, perhaps, recover her equanimity for a whole 

 day. To take her to the field on the hand, or to travel with 

 her from place to place, among sights and people most strange 



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and alarming to her, would be an impossibility. With the 

 hood on her head she sits like a stuffed bird ; she can be 

 handled, passed from one person to another, carried for 

 hundreds of miles, and taken through streets, railway stations, 



