AMERICAN HOWLERS
The following howlers appeared in Churchman, New York: — "Cannibal is two brothers who killed each other in the Bible. "A monastery is a place for monsters. "A kaiser is a stream of hot water jumping up and disturbing the earth. "The chief clause in the Magna Charta was that no freeman sliould be put to death or be imprisoned without his own conscnt. "Alexander the Great was born in
Atliens during the absence of hi# parents. "Edward III. would have been king of France if his mother had been o man. "Stability is taking care of a stable. "An anachronism is a thing a moa puts in writing in the past before it has taken place :n the future. "Ambiguity means telling tlnj truth Avhen you don't inean to."
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 202, 11 September 1937, Page 14
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