The Bookshelf for boys and girls Historic Tales and Golden Deeds part 4 (1912)
University Society, New York · New York. : University Society · leaf 141
as an Englishchild. I look at him often and wonder who hewas, for I do not know. All that I have beenable to find out about him is, that he was the sonof a great nobleman, and that this portrait stillhangs in the castle gallery where once he lived. Although the sport was commonly calledhawking,… … THE FALCONER.From the statue by George Simonds in Central Park, New York. tions of hawking speak of the hunters cours-ing along the rivers edge or the brookside.Species of hawks went by many different names:there w^as the hobby for a young man; themarlyon for a lady; the faulcon peregrine for an…
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