Suffolk and Berkshire, Henry Charles Howard, Earl of, 1833-1898, Peek, Hedley, Aflalo, Frederick G. (Frederick George), 1870-1918 · London : Lawrence and Bullen · leaf 401
him wereJohn Wood, with his brothers Robert and LukeWood for assistants. Besides hawks they trainedcormorants for fishing. Luke Wood was sentwith three cormorants to Venice, but had hiscormorants taken froin him en route by the Dukeof Savoy, to his great loss and hindrance. John Wood himself seems… … 364 THE ENCVCLOP.EDIA OF SPORT [fai.conrv to give their food by the very feel of their beaksunder his finger. But from the days of thisexcellent falconer history takes a long stridebefore recording the name of another such pro-fessor of the art. The wars of the Common-wealth had intervened, and…
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