Show LIKE THE RATTLE OF RAIN how the trilled ill R and the short A have been employed by masters of the language the trilled r and the short a after it make a sound which la is often wonderfully der fully suggestive ot of the thing described by the word which they initiate or of the mood of 0 the speaker using such a word you feel this in words of very diverse meanings in rapture and in racket in ransack and in ravage in rally and rampageous even in raffle all these words seem to do their work with a certain unction and they are capable of absorbing the unction of the speaker in a remarkable degree when a man relates that he be was very hungry hear how he rasps on the first syllable of ravenous see how burns almost compels sympathy with tho the wastrels 0 of life against the douce folk that live by rule in the mere rattle of his rs and vigor ot of his as ye ya are sae grave crave nae doubt yere wise nae tho ye do despise the halcum ram rain stam starn boys the cattlin lin squad I 1 see you upward cast your eyes ye ya ken the road good humor dislike anger seem scorn pass over these words in the act 0 of utterance like rain or hail over a wheat field |