Some, taking a different view,
Maintain the old language was fitted
To mark out the objects we knew,
By mimicking sounds they emitted.
Bow, wow, was the name of a dog,
Quack, quack, was the word for a duckling,
Hunc, hunc, would designate a hog,
And wee, wee, a pig and a suckling.
Lord Neaves, Songs and Verses.
PRACTICAL MAN.—One whose judgment is not distracted by the power of seeing far before him.
Anne Evans, Poems and Music.
OR conversation well endued,
She thinks it witty to be rude,
And, placing raillery in railing,
Proclaims aloud your greatest failing.
Swift, A Woman's Mind.
