Tyrone Area High School - Falcon Yearbook (Tyrone, PA)

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It will surprise many to learn that the art of falconry, or hawking, goes back to the remote and unwritten past. We have many proofs of this in the frescoes and sculptures of the early Egyptians and Persians. And in all the time that has passed since that early day there has never been a total lapse of the art 5 falconry has in every age been carried on in some part of the world. Ancient history is eloquent with the influence of the noble sport of hawking, the history of medieval Europe is richly col- ored with it, sixteenth and seventeenth century literature fairly abounds in passages concerning it, and the language of the day was so tinctured with the jargon of the hawkers that it is fair to conclude that, before men had knowledge of gun-powder and the fowling- piece, hawking was such a general practice as to be the principal means of obtaining wild game. At Flodden Field, gold carpeted for the meet- ing of French and English Kings, a falconry tournament was the high point of royal enter- tainment, and kings vied with each other in demonstrating the speed and obedience of their imperial gyrfalcons. Within the last twenty years there had been a great renascence of amateur falconry among the English, and some rather suc- cessful attempts have been made in America, particularly in the Genesee Valley, New York. Probably soon the bronze music of the falcons' bells will be heard in the United States as Amer- ican sportsmen and sportswomen train these sav- age birds in the aristocratic practice of taking game without firearms.