SCHOOLBOY "HOWLERS"

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 05, Issue 67, 19 June 1942, Page 6

SCHOOLBOY "HOWLERS"

A. sardine is the wife of a Cznr. A] cosmetic is something that makes you sick. Some soaps are very hard: for instance. '•cast-steel" soap. A; squaw is an American Indian lady. Her children are squawkers. A' glazier is a lot of frozen ice that fills up a river, so that the river isn't there. A gherkin is a pullover made of leather with a zip fastener down the front. Asked ay hat the future of "He drinks" is, a boy wrote "'He is drunk" Some cows are all right and some are not. Those that are not are called bulls. A. net is n thing used by fisher- ] I }<: by ty : : w *-~tr!

round a lot of holes. A fort is a place where men are kept. If you keep women there it is J i not a fort but a fortress. More than a hundred Englishmen were shut up in the Black Hole of Calcutta with only one small widow. The Mad Parliament was so called because it was something like the Parliament to-day, but not so much. What do we know of the Phoenicians? They were a racc ol' people who first thought of Phoenician blinds. A circle is a round line, without any bulges in it, joined up at the ends so that you cannot see where they are. Asked what "responsibility" meant a boy wrote: "Suppose I had only two buttons on my pants and one came off, all the responsibility would rest on the other button."