HOW THE HAWK IS TRAINED. 
— While the hawk is waiting on at a proper height, his heiad 
turned inwards, a partridge, attached to a creance, is thrown 
np, on which he presently pounces, and should be allowed to 
eat it on the ground, and near the falconer, who should walk 
round, whistle to, and make much of him. When this lesson 
has been repeated three or four times, and the partridge thrown 
up without the creance, the education of the eyes is nearly 
completed. While giving the above as the training usually 
followed by falconers, Sir John Sebright thinks it might be 
better always to feed the young hawk on the lure when flying 
at hack. He would thus learn to fly at it when swung, and' 
learn to wait on. The falconer should kneel and give him 
meat from the hand, by which means he is tamed and tapght 
not to carry. As the hawking season approaches, a few live 
partridges should be thrown up to him, which he should be 
allowed to eat on the ground, a few feet off ; he will fly down 
to it, and, having eaten it, fly back, enticed, 
as usual, by the offer of food ; a long light 
string, or creance, being attached to the 
leash when these lessons are given, taking 
care that the young bird is trained so gra- 
dually that no risk of failure is run. He 
is now to be taught to come to lure. 
The lure is a forked piece of wood, 
covered with the wings of birds, and heavy 
enough to prevent the hawk from flying 
off with it. Pieces of meat are tied to it 
on each side, and it is attached to a string, 
three or four feet long, by which it may 
be swung in the air or thrown to a distance. The hawk is 
fed upon the lure, being first induced to come to it when held 
very near — then a little farther off; it is nest thrown to the 
ground a small distance off, and thus he is brought, by 
degrees, to fly to it, and seize it eagerly, wherever thrown. 
The lure is now swung at some distance from the falconer, 
who casts off the hawk towards it, but so that he cannot 
attain it until it falls to the ground. The assistant again 
swings the lure, but takes it in his hand while the bird is 
coming; it is swung again when he has passed, and finally 
thrown on the ground when it is approaching him, taking care 
always to feed him early in the morning. This mode of treat- 
ment Sir John opines would soon accustom the hawk to stand 
to the hand. 
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