"HALLOO" AND "HURRAH,"
i Ii ia supposed we owe the exclamation • " Halloo 1" to the lingering traditions of trie tlmea when the woods of Leicester- : ahire were infested by wolves. The inhabitants of Oharawood Forest, lt is alleged, when they desire to summon a> person at a distance call out not "Hallool" but " Hallop ! " This is said to have • come down from the' days when one oried to another. " A Loup 1 a loup 1 " or aa we should Bhout m similar olrcumatanoes, " Wolf ! Wolf 1 ". The exolamation, or, aa often considered, the war ory, " Hurrah ! " ia aocording to M. Lltti©*, derived from Solavorilo. In that tongue "hura:>" meanß "to Paradise;" and theory implied that all soldlera slain while fighting valiantly went to heaven.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume v, Issue 1533, 15 April 1887, Page 2
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124"HALLOO" AND "HURRAH," Ashburton Guardian, Volume v, Issue 1533, 15 April 1887, Page 2
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