NEW SCHOOLBOY “HOWLERS”

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 260, 3 August 1928, Page 9

NEW SCHOOLBOY “HOWLERS”

Some delightful schoolboy “howlers” are given under the “Lighter Side of School Life” in “Preparatory Schools Review.” The writer states that, with few exceptions, these efforts come from his owii collection. The fact that “0.M.” means “on the make,” and lots of politicians get these'let ters, will doubtless be something of a/Shock to the proud possessors of tins order. “The reason why you sec the smoke out of a gun before you hear the report is because the smoke comes out of the gun before the noise docs.” This is surely a praiseworthy effort to explain why light travels quicker than sound. “Holland is a place noted for building wooden ships, because there are often floods which come very quickly, and the people have not' time to build iron ones.” A composition on “Florence Nightingale” states that “The Florence nightingale was bohn in the year 1555 the year of the Crimea war it always used to warn the English if the enemy was near in this way it used to fly about to place to place and then when it saw them it would fiy back to the English and make an officer look at it used to fly at the bead of the army nnd Iced the way. It died in the year 1906. The result is we have now what are called messenger birds that is the people take a pigone nnd pin a letter under its wing nnd on its leg they put a silver or lethcr ring.”