SCHOOLBOY AGAIN

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 11, 4 September 1931, Page 5

SCHOOLBOY AGAIN

some new howlers If you don't like howlers see a specialist, and enable yourself to sha.'e in one of life's purest joys. How about these selections from "The Book of Howlers," by H. Cecil Hunt? Who said, "See that thou fall not out by the way?" — Elislia to Elijali when the latter went up to heaven m a chariot. The . Pharisees were very wicked men, and, thank the Lord, we are not like them. Gross darkness mentioned in the Bible means that it was 144 times as darlc as ordinary dark. « Gorps diplomatique means shamming dead. 4. 1066 is in.th'e 9th century because centurjes always for some reason or other fall back one. A conservative is a kind of greenhouse where you look at the moon. Stephen was burned for making the Pufiing Billy. Before he died he said, "Lay not this sin to my charge." The difference between the Fifteen and the Forty-flve is the Thirty Years' War. He Found Out His Mlstake. Cromwell' s real failure was that he thought Englishmen were better than they really were, but before he died he found out his mistake. Many people say that Free Trade is better than Perfeotion. General Smuts are what all the different black races are called in the north-western quarter of Africa. The Black Hole of Galcutta was when flfty Englishmen were shut into a room with one small window. Only The people of Japan ride about in The people of Japan ride about in jig-saws. The Transvaal is situated on a plataeu 4000 miles higb, and produces large crops of serials. The chief animals of Australia are the kangaroo, larkspur, boomeran?,, and peccadillo. The rain falls equally all the year round but more so in winter. Tbe reason wby you see the smolce out, of a gun before you hegtr the report is because the smoke comes out of the gun before the noise. F.R.G.S., Friends, Romans, Country men and Sinners, The objective of "he" is "she." A plagiarist is a writer of plays. Went Throughi His Hat. Three shots rang out. Two of the servants ,fell dead, ihe other went through his hat. There are many heroes in ancient iniquity. La belle dame sans merci: The beautiful lady .who never said "thank you." Who wrote the Hallelujah Chorus? — The Salvation Army. Every morning my mother waves her arms to stretcfi her abominable muscles. Sins nf omission are those we have forgotten to do. .Coolies are men that live in cold countries. The opposite of pessimist is bigamist. . .