HAWKING. 
The management of the passage hawk (respecting whose 
snaring by means of the butcher-bird mention has already 
been made) is very similar to that indicated for the eyass. It 
is, however, much more difficult to “ break in,” or, as was the 
ancient term, to “ man.” The bird was kept awake all night ; 
and thus, in addition to his other labour, the falconer had not 
unfrequently to keep watch, until dawn, with the savage and 
fretful hawk on his hand. That this was so is proved by the 
following passage taken from a MS. of the fourteenth century : 
“ At nyghte goe to the mews and take her fayre and easily juste 
as she sitteth on her perche ; put on her jesses and belles, and 
looke that ye nether jesse be an inche larger than the farther 
for batying, then setle her on your fiste, and heave her all 
nighte.” No wonder that the falconer received good wages, 
and still no wonder, even in the face of the latter fact, that at 
the hawking period the following verse should be found in a 
popular song : — 
“ I woulde not be a serving man. 
To carry the cloke-bag stille. 
Nor would I be a falconer, 
The greedy hawkes to fille.” 
Greedy as is the hawk, however, it sometimes happens that 
he will, when first captured, be so filled with rage and yearning 
for freedom as to scorn the proffered meat and starve himself 
to death. This, however, must not be allowed, and to prevent 
it the hawk must be crammed, and a loop put about its throat 
to hinder its disgorging its distasteful meal. 
How the Spokt oe Hawking is conducted. — Unless things 
alter vastly, hawking will never again be seen in England — at 
least attended by anything like its ancient splendour. Not 
only were the hawkers and their attendants splendidly attired, 
but the hawks themselves were bedizened with all the frippery 
that their bodies could, without a chance of marring the sport, 
bear. It must be borne in mind that everybody who owned a 
falcon (and who did not P) was not a sportsman, any more than 
in modern times are all owners of dogs. Yery many more 
hawks were carried for ornament than use, and to show the 
rank of the owner. By the bye, it would seem, that in what- 
ever country the sport of hawking was invented (and, judging 
from the fact of nearly all terms used in the pastime being of 
French origin, France would seem to be that country), the 
practice of carrying the hawk on the wrist was imported from 
France. In the Bayeux tapestry, King Harold holds his hawk 
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