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HAWKS IN THE FIELD 209<br />
<strong>The</strong>n came a ringer, which was well flown, <strong>and</strong> bested in the<br />
air, but escaped by putting in. At length there was a successful<br />
flight at a ringer, which, however, was not killed until it had<br />
been routed out from the shelter to which it had put in, <strong>and</strong><br />
afforded a second flight. <strong>The</strong> double RR over the record <strong>of</strong><br />
this item in the score shows that at the second st<strong>art</strong> as well<br />
as the first the flight was a ringing one.<br />
Ruby's score begins on the morning <strong>of</strong> September i with a<br />
double flight at a mounting lark, in which he did most <strong>of</strong> the<br />
work, <strong>and</strong> took the quarry in the air. He is therefore credited<br />
with I <strong>of</strong> the lark, to mark his superiority, whereas only | is<br />
scored to Diamond, who was his companion in the flight. In<br />
the afternoon he puts in a mounter, which is lost, kills a ground<br />
lark, <strong>and</strong> then puts in another mounter, which is routed out,<br />
but puts in again, <strong>and</strong> is only taken when driven out a second<br />
time from his hiding-place. Having stuck to this lark well, <strong>and</strong><br />
accurately marked the places where he put in, the little jack is<br />
excused from further flying. Next day he begins with the unsuccessful<br />
flight which he flew with Pearl. <strong>The</strong>n he takes a<br />
mounter in the air, <strong>and</strong> at the next attempt goes up so far after<br />
a first-rate ringer that no one can keep him in sight. As this<br />
lark was obviously making for a big plantation towards which<br />
the flight went, <strong>and</strong> as the hawk, though usually obedient to<br />
the lure, did not come to it or appear again, it is almost certain<br />
that he must have killed. <strong>The</strong> fairest way in such cases is to<br />
mark the flight by a (), <strong>and</strong> not count it either as a kill or a<br />
miss in the general score. <strong>The</strong> L shows that Ruby was left<br />
out, <strong>and</strong> the (i) on the following morning shows that it was<br />
ascertained in some way that while roaming about on his own<br />
account he killed (<strong>and</strong> ate) a lark. <strong>The</strong> C indicates his recovery<br />
late in the day ; <strong>and</strong> the manner <strong>of</strong> his recapture, <strong>of</strong> course, is<br />
referred to in the notes.<br />
Diamond's first item is the { credited to him for the p<strong>art</strong> he<br />
played in the double flight with Ruby. He goes on by killing<br />
a ringer in the morning<br />
;<br />
<strong>and</strong> for his pains is rewarded with a<br />
good half <strong>of</strong> it, being then reserved for the last <strong>of</strong> the afternoon's<br />
flights, when the half-lark may have ceased to trouble his digestive<br />
organs. In the evening he puts in first a mounter <strong>and</strong> then<br />
a ringer, <strong>and</strong> then having with some difficulty <strong>and</strong> after a long<br />
flight killed a good mounter, is fed up just before it gets dark.<br />
On the morrow he falls in with two ground larks in succession,<br />
<strong>and</strong> kills them both. Hitherto, ever since the double flight with<br />
Ruby, in which he was outpaced, he has been doing well.<br />
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