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revenged, and to disarhi his judges of their severity. His zeal some- 
times degenerates into blind fury, and his partisans tremble for the 
consequences of his imprudence. He at length directs his blow 
better. The animal staggers and falls, while his conqueror is intoxi- 
cated with the applauses of the people. 
Three mules, ornamented with bells and streamers, come to ter- 
minate the tragedy. A rope is tied about the horns of the bull which 
has displayed his valour, and the brave animal is dragged ignominiously 
from the arena which he has honoured, and leaves only the traces of 
his blood, and the remembrance of his exploits, w hich are soon effaced 
on the appearance of his successor. On_ each of the days set apart 
for these entertainments, six are thus sacrificed in the morning, and 
tw'elve in the afternoon, at least at Madrid. The three last are given 
exclusively to the matador, who, without the assistance of the pica- 
dores, exerts his ingenuity to vary the pleasure of the spectators. 
Sometimes he causes them to be combated by some intrepid stranger, 
who attacks them, mounted on the back of another bull, and some- 
times he matches them with a bear; this last method is generally 
destined for the pleasure of the populace. The points of the bull’s 
horns are concealed by something wrapped round them, which breaks 
their force. The animal, which in this state is called embolado, has 
power neither to pierce nor to tear his antagonist. The amateurs 
then descend in great numbers to torment him, each after his ow'n 
manner, aud often expiate his cruel pleasure by violent contusions ; 
but the bull always falls at length under the stroke of the matador. 
History of Hawking. 
Hawking was anciently a favourite amusement in Britain ; and 
to carry a hawk, was esteemed a distinction of a man of rank. The 
Welsh had a saying, that you may know a gentleman by his hawk, 
horse, or greyhound. In those days a person of rank seldom went 
without a hawk in his hand. Even the ladies were not without 
them, for in an ancient sculpture in the church of Milton Abbey, in 
Dorsetshire, appears the consort of king Athelstan, with a falcon on 
her royal fist, tearing a bird. There are only tw o countries, how ever, 
in the world, where we have evidence that the exercise of hawking 
was Very anciently in vogue ; these are Thrace and Britain. In the 
former, Pliny tells us, it w as merely the diversion of a particular dis- 
trict. But the primeval Britons had a peculiar taste for hawking, 
and every chief among them maintained a considerable number of 
these birds for their sport. It appears also from a passage in 
Ossian, that it was fashionable in. Scotland. He tells us that a 
peace was endeavoured to be gained by the proffer of “ one hundred 
managed steeds, one hundred foreign captives, and one hundred 
hawks with fluttering wings, that fly across the sky.” To the Romans 
this diversion was scarce known in the days of Vespasian : yet it 
was introduced soon after. Probably they adopted it from the Britons ; 
first they greatly improved it by the introduction of spaniels into the 
island. In this state it appears among the Roman Britons in the 
sixth century. Hildas in his first epistle, speaking of Maglocunus, 
on his relinquishing ambition and taking refuge in a monastery, com- 
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