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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1043, 4 February 1911, Page 14

' H2" >5 p- 1 Mmr —t wMni i i - ? i?. - - iiinfiMipAnil : • : . r ' MORE SCHOOLBOY BLUNDERS. 4 A. long list of schoolboys? "howlers," supplied by teachers, is printed by "The University Correspondent." The following are some of them: Panama is a town of Colombo, where they are trying to make an isthmus. The Pyramids are a range of 'mountains between franco and Spain. The three highest mountains 'in Scotland aro Ben Nevis, Ben Lomond, and Ben Jonson. When the English first landed in Australia the only four-footed auimal in the country was a rat. Monsoons arc fertile gorges between the Himalayas. Many vessels have been wrecked and sunk in attempting to force a passage through the Eockies. "The Deserted Traveller" is the most famous of Goldsmith's works. ■ Penzance, in Cornwall, is noted for pirates. Hard water is ice, to obtain soft water you warm it. The line opposite the right angle in a right-angled triangle is called the hippopotamus. Liberty of conscience moans doing -wrong and not worrying about it afterwards. The van of an army is tho vehicle with the red cross on it. Herrings go about the sea in shawls. Nelson was the man who invented twoshilling novels. Ex-conimniiication means that 110 one is to speak to someone. A costume is so called because it is an expensive dress. The Insanitary Spectre is responsible for the health of each district. According to the Habeas Corpus Act a man cannot bo 1 punished twice for the same niVenco. so if a man steals a pig and is put in prison for it, when ho comcs out he can steql another pig and not be punished. For Chronic Chest Complaints, Woods' Great Peppermint Cure, Is. 6d„ 2s, 6d,—Advt,