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