"HOWLERS."
Sir Mil Strtltkei's, secretary to the Scottish Education Department, hi his dnnUtt'l report quotes the following schoolboy hdwlfers i~ A worshipyei 4 of Mammon means a bigamist, The Israelites were fed bv mammon in the wilderness. Muses were often seen at funerals in the olden days. A Job's comforter is a thing to give the baby the patience of Job. Franchise is a. kind of cotton imported in bales. "' The House of Commons was founded by the Parliament Act. . * The Black Prince was Surajah Dowlalv.
In the English paper one candidate said that' "to have to say something" was a, phrase that, "expressed tlie predicament of some of our Poet Laureates." Another, comparing Macbeth and Milton's Satan said that they resembled one another "bocause Tboth were misled" by their wives."
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Clutha Leader, Volume XL, Issue 41, 21 November 1913, Page 3
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131"HOWLERS." Clutha Leader, Volume XL, Issue 41, 21 November 1913, Page 3
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