A HAWK TRAINED TO PURSUE GAME.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XXII, Issue 307, 26 January 1894, Page 8

A HAWK TRAINED TO PURSUE GAME.

mnn conquest it took rapid strides in that country, being much indulged in by, kings, nobles and ladies, and in those days the ran£ of as individual was indicated by the particular species ot hawk carried upon his wrist ,'-■'■ :'-.. -■ ■-.-. . The sport declined somewhat in the seventeenth century, bat ''again revived in the eighteenth, but with, tfce, introduction of fowUag pieces and iheart of shooting on the wing it went entirely out of fashion in •ygnginwA The hawks were trained, to mount and pursue game and bring it to their masters or mistresses, coming and going at the call of the latter with marvelous docility. They were tricked out with gay hoods and held until ordered to pursue the "quarry" ot game by leathern straps fastened with rings of leather around each leg, just above the talons, and silken cords called "jesses." To each of these leather straps, or "bewets," was attached a small bell, shaped in most cases like the pearly closed aletghbells of the present iday. In India, Persia and other eastern countries nilooiiry is still practfcAL ; r . *

•* fixxsoK oh Bats."— Clears out rats, nnoe toadies, flies, ants, bed-bugs, infects, kkunls 9Cto>ratnfß. sptzrows, gophers. At chemists Jpd druggists. . .