CHAPTER VII.

THE GAME-BIRDS AND “QUARRY” FLOWN AT BY FALCONERS.

Sporting in Shakespeare’s Day.--The Pheasant.--Date of its Introduction into Britain.--Ancient Value of Game. --Game-Preserving.--Game-Laws.--Partridge-Hawking.--Anecdote of Charles I.--Quails.--Quail-Fighting.--The Lapwing.--Feigning to be Wounded.--Running as soon as Hatched.--The Heron, or Hernshaw.--Heron-Hawking.--Hawk and Hernshaw--Heron at Table.--The Woodcock.--Springes for Woodcocks.--How to Make a Springe.--A Gin.--“The Woodcock’s Head.”--The Snipe. 209