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[Pacific Railway Falconry]

Pacific Railway Falconry. A cartoon depicting Sir Alexander Mackenzie training a falcon labeled "Pacific Railway." From a cartoon by Henri Julien in Canadian Illustrated News—January 15, 1876. The text of the cartoon is:

Pacific Railway Falconry:
Johnny Macdonald: You's no the way to train a bird, mon. If ye dinna tak care, he'll fly awa'.
Alexander Mackenzie: Indeed, that's just what I'm wishing the noo.
From Steel of Empire by John Murray Gibbon, page 169.

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