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twice removed, and so onj day by day the practice stiould 



be continued, and more light gradually admitted, vintil the 



hawk will feed freely in broad daylight, and suffer the hood 



to be taken off and replaced without opposition. Next she 



must be accustomed to see and feed in the presence of strangers, 



dags, etc.. A good plan is to carry her in the streets of 



a town at night, at first where the gaslight is not strong 



and where persons passing by are few, hooding and unheeding 



her from time to time, but not letting her get frightened. 



Up to this time she should be fed on lean beefsteak, with 



no castings, but as soon as she is tolerably tame and submits 



well to the hood, she must occasionally be fed with pigeons 



and other birds. This should be done not later then 3 or 



4 P.M., and when she is placed on her perch for the night 



in the dark room, she must be unhooded and left so, of course 



being carefully tied up. The falconer should enter the room 



about 7 or 8 A.M» the next day, admitting as little light 



as possible, or using a candle. He should observe if she 



has thrown her casting, if so he will at once take her to 



the fist giving her a bite of food and re-hood her- If the 



casting is not thrown it is better for him to retire, leaving 



the room quite dark, and come in again later. She must now 



be taught to know the voice, — the shout that is used to call 



her in the field, and to jump to the fist for food, the voice 



being used every time she is fed. When she comes freely to 



the fist she miust be made acquainted with the lure. Kneeling 



down with the hawk on the fist, and gently unheeding her, the 



falconer casts out a lure, which may be either a dead pigeon 



or an artificial lure garnished with beefsteak tied to a 



string, to a distance of a couple or three feet in front of 



her. When she jumps down to it she should be allowed to eat 



a little of it~the voice being used--the while receiving 



morsels from the falconers hand; and before her meal is 



finished she must be taken off to the hand, being induced 



to forsake the lure for the hand by a tempting piece of meat^ 



This treatment wij.1 help to check her inclination here aft er^_|'^(;X 



to carry her quarry. This lesson is to be continued till '~)<tv\v^«! 



the falcon feeds very boldj^y.on the lure on the ground, in J*"^^ «>-^ 



the falconer's presence — till she will suffer him to walk 7o.s>^*- T 



around her while feeding. All this time she will have been^^<c*«- * 



held by the leash only, but the next step a strong but light ^o^ ^*^« 



creance must be made fast to the leash, and an assistant o^i^eX 



holding the hawk should unhood her, as the falconer, standingNH 



at a distance of 5 to 10 yards, calls her by shouting and 



casting out the lure. Gradually the distance is increased, 



till the hawk will come 36 yards or so without hesitation; 



she may then be trusted to fly the lure at liberty, and by 



degrees from any distance, say 1000 yards. This accomplished 



she should learn to stoop at the lure. Instead of allowing 



the hawk to sieze upon it as she comes up, the falconer 



should snatch the lure away and let her pass by, and immediately 



put it out that she may sieze it when she turns round to _; 



look for it. This should be done at first only once, and 



then progressively until she will stoop backwards and forwards 



at the lure, as often as desired. Next she should b© entered 





