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No fooling; I'm talking straight. I'm going to see what your game is." "I agree." So the policeman turned to his crossing and reassumed his authority over traffic, all the while never losing sight of the impromptu vender. Many pedestrians paused. To see a well-dressed young man hawking plaster Venuses was no ordinary sight.
Unequal to the fatigues of war, averse to the society of mankind, he withdrew from his capital to a retired palace, which he built on the banks of the River Eleutherus, and in the centre of a shady grove; where he consumed his vacant hours in the rural sports of hunting and hawking.
But though so great an enemy of young poultry, a singular instance is recorded of a hawk, which not only sat upon the eggs of a common fowl, but even attended with great care to the little ones when they were hatched. Many of the different kinds of hawk were used in olden times for a sport called hawking. That is, they were trained to fly at game and return with it to their masters.
I must after my master for the hawking." But before Bertram turned away, Maude seized the opportunity to ask a question which had been troubling her for many a month. "If you be not in heavy bire, Master Bertram " "Go to! What maketh a minute more nor less?" "Would it like you of your goodness to tell me, an' you wit, who dwelleth in the Castle of Pleshy?"
"THEY don't do nothing! Why, how you talk! They just set around." "No; is dat so?" "Of course it is. They just set around except, maybe, when there's a war; then they go to the war. But other times they just lazy around; or go hawking just hawking and sp Sh! d' you hear a noise?"
In his very frame there was the possibility of something, a blow, a shock, a thrust out of the lean soul of strength into the jelly-like fleshiness of weakness. In the world of men nothing is so rare as a knowledge of men. Christ himself found the merchants hawking their wares even on the floor of the temple and in his naive youth was stirred to wrath and drove them through the door like flies.
Hawking and coursing within bounds had been permitted by both the Knight of Berwick and the Canon of Durham on the wide northern moors; but Sir Patrick, on starting in the morning of the day when they were entering Northamptonshire, had given a caution that sport was not free in the more frequented parts of England, and that hound must not be loosed nor hawk flown without special permission from the lord of the manor.
Here are some hanging shelves, of his own construction, on which are several old works on hawking, hunting, and farriery, and a collection or two of poems and songs of the reign of Elizabeth, which he studies out of compliment to the squire; together with the Novelists' Magazine, the Sporting Magazine, the Racing Calendar, a volume or two of the Newgate Calendar, a book of peerage, and another of heraldry.
Whenever he stayed at the castle, King Richard, like our own royal Harry, would pass his time in hunting, hawking, or shooting with the long-bow; and on all these occasions the young keeper was his constant attendant.
'It would come out in spite of me, even if I wished to keep it back. 'Oh yes! Lady Ronnisglen is a different thing, said Mark. 'Just as May here is 'And she will say nothing, I know, till we are ready my dear old minnie, said Annaple. 'Only, Mark, do pray have something definite to hinder Janet with if there are any symptoms of hawking her commodity about. 'I will, said Mark.
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