The Art and Practice of HawkingMichell, E. B. (Edward Blair)
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The Art and Practice of Hawking
Michell, E. B. (Edward Blair)
Falconry
Jesses--Bells--Swivels--Leashes--The screen-perch--Blocks--
Bow-perches--Hoods--Brails--The bath--The lure--Cadges--
Gloves--Mews 40-54
CHAPTER IV
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
CHAPTER V
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
CHAPTER VI
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
CHAPTER VII
Rook-Hawking
Good and bad country--Entering to rooks--Throwing off--
Ringing flights--Shifting--Throwing up--Putting in--Riding
to hawks 101-114
CHAPTER VIII
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
CHAPTER IX
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
CHAPTER X
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
CHAPTER XI
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
CHAPTER XII
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
CHAPTER XIII
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
CHAPTER XIV
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
CHAPTER XV
Lost Hawks
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