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CHAPTER VI 



Training and Entering 



PAGES 



Reclamation of wild-caught and hack hawks — -Making to the lure — Calling 

 off — The first quarry — Innocent deceptions — Making in— Waiting on — 

 Stooping to the lure — Exercise ...... 87-100 



CHAPTER VII 



Rook-Hawking 



Good and bad country — Entering to rooks — Throwing off — Ringing flights 



— Shifting — Throwing up — Putting in — Riding to hawks . . 101-114 



CHAPTER VIII 



Game-Hawking 



Eyesses and passagers — Teaching to mount and to wait on — Entering — 

 Raking away — The pitch — The stoop — Pointers — Speed and cunning 

 of grouse — Partridges, black-game — Some good bags . . . 1 15-129 



CHAPTER IX 



Lark-Hawking 



The hobby, ancient and modern — Daring larks — The merlin — Difficulties 

 of training and flying — Making in — Fishing-rod trick — Good and bad 

 larks — High flights — Double flights — Winter larks . . . 130-141 



CHAPTER X 



Gulls, Heron, Kite, Duck, etc. 



Double flights at gulls — The Loo Club — Kite-hawking — Wild ducks, 



magpies, plovers, woodcock, snipe, and other quarry . . . 142-149 



CHAPTER XI 

 The Goshawk 



Hawks of the fist — Training — Rewards for good conduct — Yarak — Pheasants, 

 partridges, rabbits, and hares — The goshawk in covert — Variety of 

 quarry — Some good bags — A famous goshawk .... 150-159 



CHAPTER XII 



The Sparrow-Hawk 



Vices and merits — A fine hawk for the bush — Partridge-hawking — Black- 

 birds, quail, and other quarry — How to manage a sparrow-hawk — A 

 modern record ........ 160-169 



