SCHOOLBOY HOWLERS.
The following is ;i 'selection from ii list of schoolboy howlers:— In 1(520 the Pilgrims crossed the ocean, which is known as the Pilgrims’ Progress. Charles 1., was going to marry the Infanta of Spain. He went to see her and Shakespeare said he never smiled again. Tennyson the greatest prose writer that ever lived, wrote the Iliad and Paradise Lost. Account of the Feudal System— William the Conqueror was thrown from his horse and wounded in the feudal system, and died of it. Clive, imprisoned 14(1 men in the Black Hole of Calcutta, and so laid the foundation of our Indian empire. In Holland people* make use of wafer power to drive their windmills. Queen Elizabeth rode through Coventry with nothing on, and Raleigh offered her his cloak. Pompeii was destroyed by an overflow of saliva from the Yaticn n. A prism is a kind of dried plum because people say“prunes and prisms.” Doldrums are Army rations of spirits.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2721, 15 April 1924, Page 1
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162SCHOOLBOY HOWLERS. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2721, 15 April 1924, Page 1
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