A FEW “HOWLERS.”

Otaki Mail, 18 December 1922, Page 4

A FEW “HOWLERS.”

The Church Times quotes from •The American Child” the following examples of children’s answers to examination questions:There were no Christians among the early Gauls, they were mostly law-

yers. In IB2(» tlie Pilgrims crossed the ocean and,this is known as Pilgrim’s Progress. Henry Will, was very fat, besides 1 being a Nonconformist. “ The Puritans drove Roger Williams out. of Massachusetts because lie would t talk about. God. | The. Pyramids are a range of moun- j taftts between France and Spain. 2 Algebra was the wife ol Euclid. I Algebraical symbols are used when I you don’t know what you are talking I about. | Geometry teaches us how to bisex i angles. 1 A vacuum is a large, empty place I whore the Pope lives. The climate is caused by hot and j cold weather. A brute is an imperfect beast; man j is a perfect beast. i.ere are some more, from examine- j turn papers in Baltimore — , j A blizzard is the inside of a hen. : A circle is a round, straight line with a hole in the middle. George Washington married Mary , Gust is and in due lime became the father of his country. sixty gallons make one hedgehog. Georgia was founded by people who , had been executed. A mountain range is a large cook

Achilles was dipped in the river Styx to make hint normal. Pompeii was destroyed by an eruption of -saliva from the Vatican. Typhoid fever is. prevented by fascination.