MORE! CHILDREN'S ANSWERS.
The following are a few more of the ludicrous answers by schoolboys and school-; girls to questions put to them in the course , of their lessons. Thek have been collected,;: by an ingenious schoolmistress as the re-, suit of her experience during many years.' : From the- collection of answers to mathe- s matical questions we select one or two :— i " A circle is a round straight line witb ( a hole in the middle." • " Things which are equal to each other are equafto anything else." i; " A straight line is any distance between
two places." j Under the head of grammar we read : — <f "Every sentence nuist begin with a caterpillar." n j " A vesb is something to eat. - Under other heads we meet with the following : — . ,■.■• ~ ' Republican.—A sinner mentioned in the Bible. " . 1 } Demigogue.-A vessel containing beer ( and other liquids. Publican.-A man who says his prayers < in public. j Tenacious.—Ten acres of land. The coercion of home things is remarkably ; as bread and molasses. • 'J The two mast famous volcanoes of are Sodom and Gomorrah.
An interval in music is the distance oa the key-board from one piano into the next. Physillogigy is to study about your bones, stummock, and vetebry. The weight of the earth is found by com- ,• paring a mass of known lead with a mass of unknown lead. ""What," asked a Southport Sunday school teacher, "is that invisible power fchafc prevents the wicked man from sleeping and causes him to toss upon his pillow ? " Fleas !" shouted the bad boy ab the foot) . of the class.
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Auckland Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 143, 18 June 1887, Page 1 (Supplement)
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