WHAT, INDEED?
' An English scholar has been looking into the origin of tiie word "Hurrah." He thinks ;." there can be. no doubt that the Egyptian soldiers went into battle with the inspiring cheer of ' HooRa:! Hooßa! Hooßa!' " and if the average questioning man aßks why, he stagcers them with this: ," Because Hooßa (in the tongue of the Thothmes and the Rameses) means ' "-l.The' King! The King! The King!' Yea, more, as 'Ra '■ means not only. King, but also God and Man, the concentrated meaning of the cry would be—' For God, King, and Country!' What" more loyal, what more patriotic, what more devout?" '■ ' . :
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 11396, 13 April 1899, Page 3
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103WHAT, INDEED? Otago Daily Times, Issue 11396, 13 April 1899, Page 3
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