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Show REVIVAL Of PALCONnV. TU iVoag Wlla4 toraa ml Spa Acala lleeoailac rapalar la Sanaa. Few poople have any Idea of the sport which the hunters of Kurope derived, de-rived, two or three centuries ago, from hunting with blrdt It It not eaty to account for tho Ion? neglect of thlt form of bunting The only part of the continent where It survived as a normal nor-mal national sport was In Dotnla, where tho landowners have ntvtr caaited to fly thtlr falcons at partridge! that are found for tbetn by polnttra. Now that falconry has begun to revive, re-vive, the Dutch hawk catchers are unable un-able to take enough falcons to meet the orders of their KogUth and French patront These Dutch falcont, taken when following the nigbti ot all klndt of blrdt, are the pick of the catch, but far more aro taken from netts wbea very young In France the goshawk It much In favor and bleb flying falcoae are lest In domand than In England and Scotland Today the belt ettab-HabmenU ettab-HabmenU ot hawks and the molt enthusiastic en-thusiastic follower! ot the tport art found In England and E-otland Tht Hawking club meets erory spring on Salisbury Plain to fly falcont at rooks ISverythlng Is as well done as In the dayt of Jamot I There may be from twelve to twenty falcont, with the falconer fal-coner and hts cart and the membcrt on honebacU Thoro It plenty of dath and eicltement In the business Sometimes Some-times an old and keen falcon Is flown at n rook within easy reach, but she does not want the prey so near nt hand and so mounts to tbe very clouds till she spies another flock Into which she darts like n shooting star Itlders dah off acroi tho down their eyes fixed upon the hawk and tho falconer fal-coner thouts Sho has killed" when he sees something fall from tho flock Oft daih the riders who haro marked the descent ot it" victim and soon the bird Is tak n up lter In the year th members will bar fllng their fall on 1 at grouse on the Huh and North am-berland am-berland moors Not a few hawks aasV falcons are now kept In nri nbout law den, and taken Inio the country W train when thty are wanted In the field The reason why the goihawk hat become a general Mvnlte In Frane Is became of I la superiority to the falcon fal-con for hawking In a closed eotintlT amnng hedr" tree" plantations nfW gardens. It seises Its pray in the ntta on the ground, or even on n tree or bush without hesitation, nil W adroitness, speed eouratye and quick nea nf eye are attoulahlng It It nt exagxeratlon to say that the owner of n property of flvo or six huoared Mrtjj would take at much (snme on It with the single goihawk nt he could kill with a gun |