OF HIP, HIP, HURRA!

Colonist, Issue 19, 25 December 1857, Page 4

OF HIP, HIP, HURRA!

During the stirring times of the Crusades, the chivalry of Europe was excited to arms by the inflammatory appeals of the wellr | known Peter the Hermit. While pre&chitig the crusade, this furious zealot was accustomed to exhibit a banner, emblazoned with the following letters, H. E. P., the initials of the Latin words " Jlierosylma est \perdita" (Jerusalem is destroyed). The people in some of the countries which he visited not being acquainted with the latin read and pronounced the inscription as if one word—hep. The followers of the. Hermit were accustomed (whenever an' unfortunate. Jew appeared in the streets) tense the cry, "Hep hep, hurra!" to hunt him down, and flesh upon the defenceless Israelite their maiden swords, before they essayed their temper with the scimetar of the "Saracen. ..;.- .. OF "NOVEMBER." This was anciently the ninth month of the year (whence its name), but when Numa added the months of January and February, 1713 8.C., the Romans had it for the eleventh, as it now is. The Roman senators (for whose mean servilities even Tiberias, it is said, often blushed) wished to call this month, in which he was born, by his name, in imitation of Julius Csesar, and Augustus; but this the Emperor absolutely refused, saying, " What will you do, conscript fathers, if you have thirteen. Csesars ?"