MAGPIE HAWKING 



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degree, however he may be pressed, a magpie never loses his 

 head, or ceases to make for the point on which he has set his 

 mind from the first. Unless he is headed by horsemen or 

 active runners, he will sneak from bush to bush, from tuft to 

 tuft, nay, even within a deep rut or a furrow, never moving 



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except when the hawks are a little wide of him, and shifting 

 rapidly into covert the instant he is stooped at. No hawk can 

 kill him without assistance, except in the most open ground. 

 As soon as a magpie is seen a high-mounting hawk should be 

 thrown off ; his presence in the air will keep the magpie quiet 



