REVIVING AN OLD SPORT.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 7176, 30 May 1885, Page 4

REVIVING AN OLD SPORT.

ffiffip|i&l&ttemp'fc ia being made in Wilt____pojff Q v, revive the almost forgotten |^p^|b;fr hawking," says the London ult would appear yet survives in the district for Stonehenge and prime ■Hwjsi>a, relic of antiquity in the shape HlM|^\v_ing cub, and that the raeru■op|ra£a|©"en£a2;ed in training a number B^|psljr_s which tbey have in their posl^^pitih :f6r rook-hawking, and that it is l&j_tJE|ir intention ' to array themselves in lilpi'e?" ancient, and curious costume of llllalctmers.' " If they mean to go in for after the manner of J__rdly less unreal or thiy must agree on what is ' the ancient and cuiioua of; falconers.' Several illushave come down to v in the Cotton and Royal '?One of the ninth century two gentlemen in Roman #Scostuine ; two others of 500 yeara later Ipfl^owjboth sexes following the pastime. t^TJ^e ladies wear a long straight smock plt&yjer an equally unornamental gown, and .which hide their ears, and in some peases entirely cover up the throat and A s Kir g Alf red and Thomas Edward 111., and all the were addicted to hawking, the ife|Yiltßhire revivalists have a considerl^ntile. range of costume to choose from. gf^lfA^yvo are not mistaken attempts i^simiiat- to the Wiltshire experiment have ||§|>e'eri rinaade in this country of late years, lli^thougtinot with any conspicuous amount ij^pf:A.sucoess. The main point in which lllfth^ Salisbury Plain revivalists differ almost equally enthusiastic llLru&deicesaora is in the fact that they j§£_gropo3e not only to play the character pgijKfalconer, lm*, as actors say, to ' dress The holiday excursionists to may come upon a glitterPffirifr cavalcade such as greeted the sight sfs3)f - our ancestors" In the Merry England time. But he need not be feaftaid^oi them. They will only be of the modern antique— a pf^M^d of well-meaning folk, who would sj^fpltjbafily prefer Noah's Ark to an iron-