SCHOOLBOY BLUNDERS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 1225, 26 March 1914, Page 4

SCHOOLBOY BLUNDERS.

WHY TURKS ARE BRAVE. Those who feel joy at finding a really fresh “howler” will gain ample entertainment from a collection of such lapses of the schoolboy mind printed in the University Ccrrespondent (London). The following are selections : The courage of the Turks is explained by the fact that a man with more than one wife is more willing to face death than if he had only one.

After twice committing suicide, Cowper lived till 1800, when he died a natural death.

The Tropic of Cancer is a painful and incurable disease. When Chaucer describes the Prioress as amiable of port he means that she was fond of wine. When the last French attack at Waterloo proved a failure, Napoleon turned very pale and rode at lull gallop to St. Helena. Henry IV. was the son of John o’ Groats.

Much butter is imported from Denmark, because Danish cows have greater enterprise and superior technical education to ours. The Three Estates of the Realm are Buckingham Palace, Windsor and Balmoral.

The Mediterranean and the Red Seal are joined by the Sewage Canal.

Cataract is the name of the mountain on which the Aik rested.

An appendix is a portion of a book which nobody has yet dis-

covered to be of any use. An elephant is a square animal with a tail in front and heniud. The Flannelette peril means petticoat government. Women’s suffrage is the state of suffering in which they were born, A candidate for the Civil Service must he neutralised British subject. The immortal William is a phrase applied to the German Emperor.