Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1909-04-15

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you, but knew not Of your purpose;
and the falconer being bent to iy
the cast OF laneress which Colonel
Talbot lately sent to my Lord, would
have me witness the trial, and SO /
came with Master Benedict TO see
this sport. =
Nay, Albert replied the lady,
you should not have been OF my
company even II you had sought per-
mission. / come today on no idle
errand which might allow your loI-
tering PAGES and customary delays
10 gaze on headlands and meadows,
whereby you are won't TO interrupts
the course OF your journey. The
matter OF our present meeting has
need Of stirring feet, which 60 d.
rect 10 their work, yours are NOT
such. Still. Master Albert, you
shall not be useless today here IL
occupation to your hand; Blanche is
In much want ola penman, and as
you are OF the writing craft, she
would gladly enlist you In her SER
vIce--that IL, II you have not been
already nnarshalled and sworn I'M
der her colors.
Master Albert, our dear lady
does but Jest, = said Blache. she
knows ] had at FIRST no need OF bet
ter penman than myself, and now
have need of none. FOR, in truth,
my work was finished ere she came.
But your service / may command 10
q better task. You did promise TO
bring me some device for my flower
stands.
The joiner will have them here
to-day, replied the Secretary. II
haye not failed TO spurhis industry
as well as my own invention TO do
your wish.
Then all Is done but the render
ing ofthanks, said Blanche, which
yet ! am not In the humor to do,
having matter OF quarrel with you
for that following Of the poor heron
which, but now, we saw the hawk
strike down. whilst you were o
looker.on, and as we suspect, an en-
courager Of the act. II was cruel
thing TO assail the innocent fowl,
which, being native here, has ever
found friends In our hOuse;--yes,
and has daily fed upon the Dat be-.
low the garden. These herons
scarce fly when walk by them on
the beach. | wish the ialconer had
sought bis quarry elsewhere than
amongst my harmless birds. You
should have controlled bin.
& ] m slesply ,,gieyee = replis3'
not Of the bird nor whence be came:
nor thought Of II, intruth. Afeath-
or Of bis wing should not have come
to harm had / been aware that be
had ever pleased your eye. / am
all unskilled In these out door sports,
and have scarce worn out the COM
plexlon OF my school az Antwerp,
whore worldly pastimes were q for
hidden thought. A poor scholar OF
the clolster might 20 free OF blame
II, In this sunny and gallant world.
the transport Of noblegame should
rob him OF his circumspection.
thought Of naught but tho glorious
circling of the hawk and bis swift
and imperious assault. Il crave your
pardon for my inconsiderate error
You speak more like o practIsed
cavalier than o scholar OF the clois-
ter, said the sister Of the Proprie-
tary; you have o cavaliers love
OF the sport, Albert. "
Il does not beseem me, madam,
was the Secretary's reply Ito affect
o pastime which belongs neither to
my rank nor humble meaps; hut, la
truth, dear lady, / do love hawk,
and hound, and steed. And whom
In my sequestered study--where,
being. as Thought, destined 10 the
service Of the altar. / read mostly Of
holy men and holy things, little
dreaming that / should ever see the
worlds sometimes CHANGED, In my
stray reading. | fell upon lay
wherein deeds Of chivalry were
told; and then | was conscious ofa
wish, am now almost ashamed 10
confess, that fortune might some
day bring me better acquainted with
that world 10 which such deeds be-.
longed. Obi ID has befallen now:
----that ls,--I mean 10 say con-
tinued the Secretary. checking him
self, as bis flashing eye fell 10 the
floor and blush fitted across his
brow--"it has pleased Heaven TO
give me kind master In my good
Lord, who does not deny me to look
on when these sports are aGeld."
And II we did strike down the
heron, Blanche Warden said
Benedict Leonard, saucllY accosting
the maiden. and showing the hawk
that was bound TO bis wrist" what
Is heron good for but 10 be bronRhb
DOWN Herona were made for
hawks-yes, and for the hawks OF
the Proprietary above all others;
for have heard say that every
heron On the Chesapeake, within my
fathers boundary, ID his own bird:
so Derrick has said q hundred times.
And there Is my uncle Talbot, who
flies hawk better than any other
in the province--I don't care II Der
rick hears me-and has the best
news, --he says that these firearms
have broken uU hawking In the old
country; and he told ms ! must not
let Il fall through when / come TO
10 tho province; for my father, be
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