" "What good is the house to me?" "Can't you hear me out?

Ray gives it as a Suffolk word, and the 'hear, hear' of Lowestoft boatmen of to-day is probably a disguised 'yare, yare'.

"Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord," writes the Deuteronomist; "and thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart and with all thy soul and with all thy might.

This work, which was translated into English and printed by Caxton in 1483, although little heard of now, was for several centuries a household word in Christendom.

" "Hearing is obedience.

Such a look on the absent, tender face as the great masters, the divinest poets cannot often summon, but which comes at the call of some foolish old nursery jingle, some fragment of half-forgotten folk-lore, heard when the world was youngwhen all hearing was music, when all sight was "pictures," when every sense brought marvels that seemed the everyday way of the wonderful, wonderful world.

I try, Heaven knows how I try, but all the C.O. hears is a sound as of two cabbages being slapped together.