Crossword-Solution: NOIN 4 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 4

Thure shuddered at the thought of the hanging; and, with fingers that trembled a little, cautiously opened the paper and read these dreadful words: You have gone and done it now you infernal idjit by testifin' agin us it is now yur necks or ourn al hel kant save you now you kan keep the map and we wil git it off yur ded bodies and you kan have the satisfackshun of noin that you might have ben alive and wel when yur danglin ded at the end of a rope.

The true reading is _Failte la, lan, ri, dun, dile_, which signifies "Welcome to the full or complete day! let us go to the hill of rain." _Hey, nonnie, nonnie._ "Such unmeaning burdens of songs," says Nares in his Glossary, "are common to ballads in most languages." But this burden is not unmeaning, and signifies "Hail to the noon." _Noin_ or noon, the ninth hour was so called in the Celtic, because at midsummer in our northern latitudes it was the ninth hour after sunrise.

One of the most charming aspects of our wandering life is the friends we have made in far corners of the world, and for none have we a more affectionate regard than for "Larsen of Mongolia." PLATE VII [Illustration: MONGOL WOMEN BESIDE A "YURT"] [Illustration: THE HEADDRESS OF A MONGOL MARRIED WOMAN] [Illustration: THE FRAMEWORK OF A YURT] [Illustration: MONGOL WOMEN AND A LAMA] CHAPTER VII THE LONG TRAIL TO SAIN NOIN KHAN Our arrival in Urga was in the most approved manner of the twentieth century.

Sain Noin, one of the four Mongolian kings, had died only a short time earlier under suspicious circumstances, and his widow had just visited the capital.