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Read Ebook: The Art and Practice of Hawking by Michell E B Edward Blair Lodge George Edward Illustrator
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History and Literature
Antiquity of hawking in China--Introduction into Europe--Royal and Imperial falconers--Decline of the sport--Survival and revivals--Modern falconers--Early writers--Leading authorities--Modern books 1-8
The Birds Used in Hawking
Three classes--Long-winged hawks: Ger-peregrine, and kindred varieties, shaheens, barbary, saker, lanner, and desert falcons, hobby, merlin, and kestrel--Short-winged hawks: goshawks and sparrow-hawks--Eagles, golden, Bonelli's, etc., falconets 9-39
Furniture and Fittings
Jesses--Bells--Swivels--Leashes--The screen-perch--Blocks-- Bow-perches--Hoods--Brails--The bath--The lure--Cadges-- Gloves--Mews 40-54
Eyesses and Hack Hawks
Taking from the eyrie--Feeding--Turning out to hack--The board system--Hacking to the lure, and to the hand--Learning to fly--Dangers and diversions of hack--Taking up--The bow-net 55-69
Passage Hawks
Valk enswaard--Hawk-catcher's hut--The shrike sentinel-- Handling the wild-caught hawk--The sock--The dark cell--Prison fare--Early discipline--Waking--Hooding--Carrying--Manning-- Pegging out 70-86
Training and Entering
Reclamation of wild-caught and hack hawks--Making to the lure-- Calling off--The first quarry--Innocent deceptions--Making in-- Waiting on--Stooping to the lure--Exercise 87-100
Rook-Hawking
Good and bad country--Entering to rooks--Throwing off-- Ringing flights--Shifting--Throwing up--Putting in--Riding to hawks 101-114
Game-Hawking
Eyesses and passagers--Teaching to mount and to wait on-- Entering--Raking away--The pitch--The stoop--Pointers-- Speed and cunning of grouse--Partridges, black-game--Some good bags 115-129
Lark-Hawking
The hobby, ancient and modern--Daring larks--The merlin-- Difficulties of training and flying--Making in--Fishing-rod trick--Good and bad larks--High flights--Double flights-- Winter larks 130-141
Gulls, Heron, Kite, Duck, etc.
Double flights at gulls--The Loo Club--Kite-hawking--Wild ducks, magpies, plovers, woodcock, snipe, and other quarry 142-149
The Goshawk
Hawks of the fist--Training--Rewards for good conduct--Yarak-- Pheasants, partridges, rabbits, and hares--The goshawk in covert--Variety of quarry--Some good bags--A famous goshawk 150-159
The Sparrow-Hawk
Vices and merits--A fine hawk for the bush--Partridge-hawking-- Blackbirds, quail, and other quarry--How to manage a sparrow-hawk--A modern record 160-169
Home Life
The falconer's establishment--Good and bad falconers-- Hawk-houses--The falconer's day--Bathing--Weathering-- Exercise--Diet--Castings--Tirings--Rangle--Bedtime 170-191
Hawks in the Field
Hooding up--Accoutrements--Field tactics--Markers--Mounted men--Successful and unsuccessful flights--Putting in--Picking up--Consolation quarry--Disobedient hawks--A good quarry-book 192-212
Lost Hawks
Carelessness and imprudence--A kill out of sight--A night out--Search and recapture--Chance witnesses--Decoy hawks-- Winding up--Snaring--A fresh start 213-224
Accidents and Maladies
Broken feathers--Imping--Broken bones--Diagnosis--Croaks, cramp, ague, apoplexy, frounce, inflammation, and fever-- Corns, broken talons, blain, craye, and other maladies 225-243
Moulting
Early and late moulting--Flying through the moult--Throwing into the mews--Diet and management--Bad moulters--Intermewed hawks--Physic and treatment 244-254
Virtue and Vice
Good and bad hawks--Temper, shape, size, and colour--Style of flying--Carrying--Soaring--Raking away--Checking-- Perching--Hood-shyness--Screaming--Refusing--Running cunning--Seven deadly sins--Four cardinal virtues 255-274
Anecdotes and Adventures
PHOTOGRAVURES
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Death of the Rook 110
Sparrow-Hawk and Partridge 168
Shape of Wings 11
Trained Kestrel "Thunderbolt," owned by Mr. R. Gardner 30
Hawk's Furniture 40
Blocks and Perches 46
Hawk's Furniture 48
Cadge with Peregrines 52
Falcon and Tiercel Weathering 86
Pluming the Dead Grouse 127
Trained Merlin 132
Trained Goshawk, "Gaiety Gal," owned by Mr. A. Newall 159
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