CHAPTER XIX. Anecdotes and Adventures

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