HISTORY AMENDED

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 84, 7 January 1928, Page 22

HISTORY AMENDED

History is a fruitful field for howlers. Rays.tho Melbourne “Age." “Henry VII passed a law that no one might have a liver,” wrote one boy, who would have been right if he had added the letter "y” to the final word. The following is an English schoolboy's essay on a King, who, on account of his obesity and uxuriousness, appeals to the youthful imagination* “King Henry VIII was the greatest widower that ever lived. He was born at Anno Domino in the year 10G6. He had 516 wives, besides children. The first was beheaded and executed. The second was revoked. She never smiled again. But she said the word 'Calais’ would be found on her

heart after her death. The greatest man in the reign was Lord Sir Garret Wolsev. He was sir named the Boy Bachelor. He was, at the age of fifteen, unmarried. Henry VIII was succeeded on the throne by his great grandmother, the beautiful and accomplished Mary Queen of Scots, sometimes known as the Lady of the Lake, or the Lay of the Last Minstrel.” Another young essayist described Oliver Cromwell as the man who killed his king by “repeated beheadals,” and whose last words were, “If onlv I had served my God as I have served my King, he would not have given me over in my grey hairs.”