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 CHAPTER XVI 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 CHAPTER XVII 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 CHAPTER XVIII 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 CHAPTER XIX Anecdotes and Adventures Lessons from the quarry-book--The old authors--Modern experiences--Peregrine and pigeon--A miraculous rabbit-- Queer hiding-places--Wild _v._ tame hawks--Merlin-hawking with peregrines 275-284 X? LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PHOTOGRAVURES PAGE Falcons and Goshawk Weathering _Frontispiece_ Death of the Rook 110 Sparrow-Hawk and Partridge 168 (_From Drawings by G. E. Lodge_) OTHER ILLUSTRATIONS Shape of Wings 11 (_From a Drawing by Mrs. Sachs_) Trained Kestrel "Thunderbolt," owned by Mr. R. Gardner 30 (_From a Photo by C. Reid, Wishaw, N.B._) Hawk's Furniture 40 (_From a Drawing by the Author_) Blocks and Perches 46 (_From a Drawing by the Author_) Hawk's Furniture 48 (_From a Drawing by the Author_) Cadge with Peregrines 52 (_From a Photo by C. Reid, Wishaw, N.B._) Falcon and Tiercel Weathering 86 (_From a Photo by C. Reid, Wishaw, N.B._) Pluming the Dead Grouse 127 (_From a Photo by C. Reid, Wishaw, N.B._) Trained Merlin 132 (_From a Drawing by Mrs. Sachs_) Trained Goshawk, "Gaiety Gal," owned by Mr. A. Newall 159 (_From a Photo by Herbert Bell, Ambleside_) THE ART AND PRACTICE OF HAWKING CHAPTER I History and Literature