SCHOOL “HOWLERS”

Hokitika Guardian, 28 March 1929, Page 8

SCHOOL “HOWLERS”

THE LATEST COLLECTION Tlio London Fniversity Correspondent. in announcing the winner of its annual prize for the host collection ol school ‘•‘howlers,” {rives a selection from the entries received:— Tile chief work of the .Uritish m Egypt since 1830 lias been the extermination of the sphinxes. Sir \Y. Scott was called the Blizzard of the North. He tried to reach the North Poles hut died in the attempt. “Mean! melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweetef.” — Paraphrase : It is nice to hear music, hut it i« still nicer not to. Parliament assembled in November ami dissembled in December. What should the Lady of Shalott have done instead of lying down in the boat and wasting her life because Sir Lancelot took no notice of her?—'She should have looked out for another. Correct the sentence: “it was me that has broken the window.” —“ J t wasn’t me that has broken the window.” The imperfect tense hs used in French to 'express a future action in past time which does not take place at all. TcaMier (after a lesson in microbes): “Why then is it essential to keep the house clean and tidy “Because somebody we know might come in am time to see us.” To collect the fumes of sulphur hold a deacon over the end of a tube. A circle is a line which meets its other end without ending. A focus is a thing that looks like a mushroom, but ii you eat it it feels dilforent from a. mushroom.