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Persian Falconer Ready for the Chase

it on horseback, but also, where the ground was broken, covered fresh supply. Many of these species eat | with wood, or intersected by marshes or fish, and others are content to subsist on water, to pursue the pastime on foot; in the snakes and reptiles, eating them greedily. latter case, each sportsman carried a long pole, to aid him in jumping over rivu- died, but for a serving-man, wno, happen. lets and ditches.

Vaulting over a ditch, ing to be near, leaped into the ditch, and Henry's pole broke, and he fell head down-rescued the king. "And so," says the ward into the deep mud, which almost chronicler, in quaint old English, "God smothered him; and there he would have in his goodness preserved hym."