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My mate Mort has just been to sort me a bit of plumbing out. Mort has Hawks and he trains them ‘the old way.’ He got a book about the Knights of the Round Table and how they trained their Hawks, it’s all about dominance with Hawks, you have to show them who the gaffer is. 1/2
2/2 So, Mort gets his Hawk and ties it to the chair at one end of the table and he sits at the other end with only a flickering candle between them. They then proceed to stare at each other through the dancing flame and the first one to fall asleep loses and is subservient to 2/3
3/3 the other. This has to continue for as long as it takes. This went on for a weekend, the Hawk stayed awake and Mort fell asleep after 28 hours. Now the Hawk owns Mort. He showed me it in its cage and told me it was trained, he opened the cage and it attacked him as pissed 3/4
4/4 off and flew away. You can often see Mort in a little place called Wentbridge shouting at a circling Hawk that refuses to come home. This has been going on for about three years. He also got done for not taking the library book back. This is a true story.