This is the wonderful figure of Hodgesaargh made by, and for sale from, Clarecraft.
http://www.realhhg.freeserve.co.uk/aargh/dave.htm
and at
http://www.ie.lspace.org/books/apf/lords-and-ladies.html
Hodgesaargh, his Phoenix puppet, and the birds from the mews
"Nor did he deserve his ceremonial costume. Usually, when not in the company of King Henry, he just wore working leathers and about three sticking plasters, but what he was wearing now had been designed hundreds of years before by someone with a lyrical view of the countryside and who had never had to run through a bramble bush with a gerfalcon hanging on their ear. It had a lot of red and gold in it and would have looked much better on someone two feet taller who had legs for red stockings. The hat was best not talked about, but if you had to, you'd talk about it in terms of something big, red and floppy. With a feather in it."
from Carpe Jugulum
Agnes had seen pictures of an ostrich.
So ... start with one of them, but make the head and neck in violent yellow, and give the head a huge ruff of red and purple feathers and two big round eyes, the pupils of which jiggled drukenly as the head moved back and forth ..."
... ... ...
"'Hodesaargh, why - and I realize I might not like the answer - why are you hiding in the woods with your arm dressed up like Hetty the Hen and making horrible noises through a tube?'
'Trying to lure the phoenix, miss.'"
from Carpe Jugulum page 100
