UNCONSCIOUS BUT FUNNY

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 8, 21 February 1907, Page 37

UNCONSCIOUS BUT FUNNY

That the average schoolboy is "an unconscious humorist of the highest order is amply proved by the examples which, supplied by schoolmasters, appear from time to time in "print. ' Rivers flow because no '"one .can stop them,' declared one youthlul essayist recently; while another when • asked to give the seven - great powers of the world, wrote in all good' faith" : ' Gravity, electricity, steam power, gas' power,' horse power, larmies", and navies,' • - , ' • In" describing the difference between, a physician and a surgeon, yet another budding writer declared : ' A physician is a man who deals with medicines. He goes out to see people. A surgeon is a man who mixes medicines in" the surgery for. the physician, . and who stakes legs off when any one requires it or arms.' The subject, ' Great Men of To-day,' called forth many curious, .statements, one of the -best being : ' England has rose to a very high , position-' in' the greatness of men. The greatest detective of the, day is Sherlock Holmes. He lives in England / and no one who has committed a> crime can escape him. Lord Roberts is our greatest soldier.; He- is .our greatest patriarck.'