Outing . t quietly, defeated all hiselders, until they insisted on playing halfthe time on soft turf, while they learnedhis tricks. Quite remarkable skill is soon devel-oped, and the game, like golf, takeshold. It is not uncommon in a contestof experts to see a player by a singlethrow, on firm ground, displace his oppo-nents ringer and slide his own on inits stead, maybe to have this lifted awayat the next throw. Now and then agame of eleven points is won in fourtosses, to be long replayed by winter fire-sides. In the shortening autumn evenings,with the stress of work abated, lanternsare often
Outing . t quietly, defeated all hiselders, until they insisted on playing halfthe time on soft turf, while they learnedhis tricks. Quite remarkable skill is soon devel-oped, and the game, like golf, takeshold. It is not uncommon in a contestof experts to see a player by a singlethrow, on firm ground, displace his oppo-nents ringer and slide his own on inits stead, maybe to have this lifted awayat the next throw. Now and then agame of eleven points is won in fourtosses, to be long replayed by winter fire-sides. In the shortening autumn evenings,with the stress of work abated, lanternsare often brought out and placed at eitherhub, and the game goes on with un-slackened interest, while the childrenplay in and out of the light circles andthe women come together and chat, orlisten from their homes with content-ment to the intermittent clinking and theexplosions of cheerful voices and laugh-ter. People driving by pause a while towatch, and all know that the day is end-ing neighborly and well. [657]. DIGNITY AND DOUBLE IMPUDENCE AN ANCIENT SPORT IN THE NEW WORLD By EDWARD BRECK Illustrated with Photographs by the Author What Happened When Her Owner Attempted to Teach LadyClara Vere de Vere the Noble Art of Falconry S ROM the time when, a smallboy, I saw a Coopers hawkj dash down before my veryeyes, seize a good-sized chick-en in spite of a vicious andheroic attack by the ,and soar off with it into space, I havebeen an admirer of that bold and grace-ful bird of prey. My romantic soulconnected it with the gay falcons of an-cient days that the lords and ladies car-ried hooded on their wrists while cavort-ing upon gaily caparisoned hawks I was acquainted with,those of the Buteo class, the broadwingand the redshouldered, and the dashingosprey, and others, some of them largerthan the Cooper, but none was so bold,•so delightfully piratical. Later on inlife I made in England the discoverythat the art of falconry had by no meansfollowed bear-baiting into th
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