The Godstone and the Blackymor

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T. H. White. The Godstone and the Blackymor

The Godstone and the Blackymor

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LOSING A FALCON

THE BLACKYMOR

THE BIRD LIFE

THE FAIRY FIRE

LETTER FROM A GOOSE SHOOTER

THE GODSTONE

SNOW IN ERRIS

A LOVE AFFAIR

A NEW BOY IN THE SCHOOL OF DEATH

GIVING UP SHOOTING

A PILGRIM SON

NOT CLOWNS

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T. H. White

Published by Good Press, 2021

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When a peregrine stoops from her pitch, you can actually hear the wind in her feathers—a sort of FFFFRP as she hurtles by. When she strikes a flying grouse, she bowls it over in a cloud of feathers, head over heels, exactly as if it had been shot. You can hear the thump. Then she sweeps upward in a stall turn and binds to the body.

So there she was—my beautiful, my crazy Cressida—clutching the dead bird in the heather and glaring at us with an expression I could not decypher. She mantled over the quarry, shielding it with greedy wings as if to keep us away. She began to pluck and toss away the feathers, starting at the head—for she had been superbly educated by the falconer who gave her to me, Gilbert Elaine. A peregrine is allowed the head for a reward, but the body goes to the kitchen.

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