tamo. IIo explained the dilTercnt natures of these birds, and gave 
us pretty nearly the intelligence relative to training them, that I 
have related above, 
“ At length he made us all so in love with hawking, that avc 
longed to sec this famous amusement, in which gratification, he 
said, he had no doubt but ho could indulge us on the following 
day ; for ho had a cast of hawks him.self, and he expected Lord 
Orford’s falconer on the following morning, with a cast and a half 
more, in which case ho would undertake to shew us some sport, 
A cast consists of two. The falconer was a.s gooil as his word, 
and so was my frieiid. Ho called upon us in the morning, and we 
all repaired to a common about two miles from Yarmouth 
The five hawks produced for our amusement, were all males 
Tlioy were trained to lly at nothing but crows, of which all the 
l)irds seemed to be conscious ; for, after the first flight, there was 
not a crow to be seen, out of many hundreds that were spread over 
the common on our fii-st entrance on it, Avhilo the cootes and curlews, 
and a variety of other birds were flying in all directions, perfectly 
unconcerned at the appearance of these beautiful ami terrible 
creature.s.” 
The remainder of the article contains nothing that u-ould justify 
me in quoting it entire, though the description of flying the Hawks 
is well told for a person who had not before witnessed anything of 
the kind. Speaking of the first flight at a “crow” (/.e. Look) the 
writer says: “I had never, properly speaking, seen a crow lly in 
my life. Instead of the heavy clownish manner in which it had 
ever to mo seemed to trudge, as it were, through the air, the 
A'olocity with which it Hew to escape its enemy, gave it the api»ear- 
anco of a different bird ; nor was it in cunning inferior to the 
hawk, though clearly frightened into a kind of last desperation.” 
All five Hawks were flown. Of the first cast each took after a 
separate bird, and neither was successful, the writer’s friend taking 
up the second Hawk. The next cast seems to have been “ hooded- 
off” for exercise. Then a cast was formed of the odd Tercel and 
one of those fii-st flown, which between them killed their quarry. 
Several truthful touches appear in the narrative, Avhich only make 
one regret that the writer had not told us more of his friend, whom, 
from the locality given, “ about two miles from Yarmouth,” we may, 
1 think .safely infer to have been Mr. Hownes. It is not so ea.sy 
