. Coursing and falconry. Coursing; Falconry. 250 FALCONRY shown below. It is usually worn round the waist on horse- back, or, if used on foot, over the shoulder. Many falconers use the voice freely when training or exer- cising their hawks. Tradition is in favour of the practice, and it seems to have been in use in Shakespeare's time, or he would not have made Juliet exclaim :— Hist 1 Romeo, hist! O ! for a falconer's voice To lure this tassel-gentle back again. Romeo and Juliet, Act II. Sc. ii. Yet we have our doubts as to the efficacy of the practice. A short sharp cry as game rises is certa
. Coursing and falconry. Coursing; Falconry. 250 FALCONRY shown below. It is usually worn round the waist on horse- back, or, if used on foot, over the shoulder. Many falconers use the voice freely when training or exer- cising their hawks. Tradition is in favour of the practice, and it seems to have been in use in Shakespeare's time, or he would not have made Juliet exclaim :— Hist 1 Romeo, hist! O ! for a falconer's voice To lure this tassel-gentle back again. Romeo and Juliet, Act II. Sc. ii. Yet we have our doubts as to the efficacy of the practice. A short sharp cry as game rises is certainly of use, as it may attract the attention of a hawk that is waiting on so wide that her eyes may be turned for the moment in another di- rection. An old hawk, too, may become so used to her trainer's voice that she may not, however wilful she be, stray beyond sound of it. But, as a rule, hawks are birds that work solely by the eye. They will generally detect game the instant it rises from the covert, many seconds ere the sound of the falconer's voice reaches them. So, too, they will see the lure ihe moment it is shown to them, and if they will not come to it when well in their view, no strains of the human voice, however melodious, will attract them. If the falconer has a fine sonorous voice and he likes to exercise it either in calling or in cheering on his hawks, he can do so with eyesses without doing the slightest. Fig. 10.—Falconer's hag. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Cox, Harding Edward de Fonblanque, 1854-; Lascelles, Gerald William. Falconry; Richardson, Charles, ed. London and Bombay, Longmans, Green, and Co.
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