HOW THE HAWK IS TRAINED. 
by the feet, but the Count Guy carries his on his wrist. Neither 
of the gentlemen wear hawking gloves, although the falcons re- 
presented are as big as Christmas turkeys. 
The old English hawk, when “ dressed ” for pageant or 
pastime, wore about his neck a delicate collar of gold 
fillagre, while over his head was drawn a hood of the finest 
THE FRAME. 
netted silk. Little tinkling bells — the richest sounding ones, 
made in Milan or Dort — were suspended from the beurts, or 
leather leg rings, and the glove on which he sat was of stout 
white leather, spangled with gold, and sometimes jewels ; and 
if the hawk were not thoroughly tame, attached to the beurts 
was a dainty silken thread, long enough to allow the bird to 
take a high flight, and be brought safely to hand again. 
One thing, at least, is certain; before the sport could be 
revived here, we should have to send abroad for masters to 
train us falconers, the race being, according to Sir John 
Sebright, extinct. It is nearly forty years ago since he wrote : — 
“ The village of Falconswaerd, near Bois-le-Duc, in Holland, 
has for many years furnished falconers to the rest of Europe. 
I have known many falconers in England, and in the ser- 
vice of different persons on the continent, but I have never 
met with one of them who was not a native of Falconswaerd. 
It has been the practice with these sober and industrious men 
to stay with their employers during the season for hawking, 
and to pass the remainder of the year with their families at 
home. John Pells, now in the service of my friend, John 
Dawson Downes, Esq., of Old Gunton Hill, Suffolk, and who 
also manages the heron hawks kept by subscription in Norfolk, 
is, I believe, the only efficient falconer now remaining ; all the 
others whom I remember are either dead or worn out, and 
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