MORE "HOWLERS"
A further collect-ion of , schoolboy "howlers" hns been made by Colin M'lhvaine. There .are a dozen laughs and chuckles in every section. Here are some extracts from that .dealing with Personalities: — Pericles was the first reformer in Greece. He murdered his wife. Virgil was in love with a girl calledEnid and wrote a lot of books about her. Plato was the God of the Underground. Polonius was a mythical sausage. Bacchus first taught the , Greeks to get drunk. Apollo was the king of table waters. Archimedes was a man who looked through a. telescope at the Spanish Armada and so set it on .fire, and said: "I have singed -the King of Spain's beard." He lived in a tub. Tliosus begged Minos to try • and kill the labyrinth. Charles Darwin was the originator of tho human species. Handel was a' quiet man, with twenty children. He was a German, but his father suppressed his feelings.
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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 112, 17 November 1928, Page 12
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