E.R.J.H.

Chancery Lane.

It may be possible further the purpose of the noble Querist as to the

word _Howkey_ or _Horkey_, if I state, that when in my boyhood I was

accustomed to hear this word, it was pronounced as if spelt _Hockey_. As

_Howkey_ I should not have recognised it, nor hardly as _Horkey_.

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