Schoolboy "Howlers."

Horowhenua Chronicle, 9 June 1915, Page 4

Schoolboy "Howlers."

Some choice examples of schoolboy "howlers" are quoted by the "University XJorrespondent." Among them are the following:— Cecil Rhodes iounded Boadioea. Charles 11. told the people they could get drunk and gamMe, and do what tiiey liked. This was called the Restoration. The King was not to order taxis without the consent of Parliament. 'Masculine, man; feminine, Woman; neuitcr, corpse. The Inquistions were customs duitoies levied by James I. The Philistines are islands in the Pacific. "Boj T s to guide the plough and pen" means Taoys to plough and look after the fowls. Togoland .belongs to Japan. Tennyson, the greatest Roman prosewriter that ever lived, wrote the "Iliad" and "Paradise .Lost.'' Jbyons is a city noted for tea. Australia sends to England wine made from a bird named the emu. Chaaiee I. was going to marry the Infanta of Spain. He was to see her, and Shakespeare says he never smiled agani. Bomhardied , Wells is a great writer albout the future. uVlilton when twelve years old (Wrote a hymn beginning "Letters from a Gladstone mind." There are three kinds of Downs— North Downs, South Downs, and Eider Downs. Henry VIII. was very fat besides being a Nonconformist. Magna Charta means the Queen has lost her garter; the French is honisoit qui mal y pense. Cologne is famous for the odour made there. To germinate is to 'became » naturalised German. A refugee keeps order at a football match. People often lose their conscience when they are ill.