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not the effect of banishing the game flown at from its haunts, 

 A single afternoon at the sport will prove to any man of ex- 

 perience that it is not likely to have this effect. Immediately 

 a covey is flushed, the hawk being overhead, its members 

 hurry with the utmost speed they can command to the nearest 

 covert. One bird only is killed, and the rest find a refuge 

 within a few hundred yards of the place where they were 





found. Directly they discover that they are not pursued they 

 will be out on the feed again; for there is nothing unnatural or 

 unusual to them in being frightened by a hawk. Probably on 

 any ground open enough for hawking, they see a wild one 

 every other day, and merely consider the trained bird to be 

 one of their natural enemies, which they readily avoid by their 

 natural powers and instinct. 



