MORE "HOWLERS”

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 922, 15 March 1930, Page 28

MORE "HOWLERS”

SCHOOLBOY EFFORTS Some amusing “howlers,” culled from _ examination papers of boys at I the school, are given in the current j issue of an English school magazine. Asked to describe the character of Edward VII., one boy wrote: "He was a fat man, who changed his trousers every day and loved foreign travel.” Others taken from the collection are: This story is aboriginal. What is tepid water?—Water that comes from the tap. The judge asked the deceased if he had anything to say. The plural'of mouse is mouses and of grouse griee. A thermos flask is used for making carbon dioxide. I do not think that Elizabeth should have been called Good Queen | Bess, because if she had been good I she would not have drunk a pint of beer for breakfast every day. Hydrochloric acids passed through a thistle funeral. Of Cromwell one boy wrote: “Crom- ; well was a very sturdy man. In battle brave and daring. One of his most | famoue battles was the battle of j Hastings. 1066. When he fought King j Harold. He also fought a lot in the j streets when he was a boy. He was j also very cunning in battle. For in- j stance, when he turned and fled for> pretence in the battle of Hastings.” i