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[169] The F. Sacer in India is called'Laghar'and tiercel'Jaghar.'Mr. T.E. Jordan (catalogue of Indian Birds,1839) says it is rare;but I found it the contrary. According to Mr. R.

Thompson it is flown at kites and antelope: in Sind it is used upon nightheron (nyctardea nycticorax),floriken or Hobara (Otis aurita),quail,partridge,curlew and sometimes hare: it gives excellent sport with crows but requires to be defended. Indian sportsmen,like ourselves,divide hawks into two orders: the'Siyahchasm,'or blackeyed birds,longwinged and _disibledevent=Father of coolness;because it is said to have the'coldest'eye of all animals and insensible to heat and light,since it always looks at the sun.

[178] This dividing the hemistich words is characteristic of certain tales;so I have retained it although inevitably suggesting:

I left Matilda at the U niversity of Gottingen.

[179] These naive offers in Eastern tales mostly come from the true seducerEve. Europe and England especially,still talks endless absurdity upon the subject. A man of the world may'seduce'an utterly innocent (which means an ignorant) girl. But to'seduce'a married woman! What a farce!

[180] Masculine again for feminine: the lines are as full of wordplays,vulgarly called puns,as Sanskrit verses.