Another meaning to that horn?

[Mark Kohut]

I never bothered to learn what a horn book was, despite its name on a major children's book magazine. 

From WILL IN THE WORLD,  about Shakespeare's grade school education:  " The child no doubt began with a ' horn-book' ---a wooden tablet with the letters and the Paternoster printed on a piece of parchment covered with a thin sheet of transparent horn ---and with the standard primary school text THE ABC WITH THE CATECHISM." 

Our beloved TRP is the kind who might love the horn/horn ambiguity, homonymy, with that extra textual meaning so CofL49. 



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