SCHOOLBOY “HOWLERS.”

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 2 May 1925, Page 14

SCHOOLBOY “HOWLERS.”

The unmistakable stamp of genius on some of the alleged schoolboy answers to examination questions, which every now and then find their way into print, suggests that all have not been mistakes, if, indeed, all are boys’ work. Here are some old ones and some we have seen before : A fugue is what you get in a room full of people when all the windows and doors are shut. An Irish hull is a male cow.

Evolution is what Darwin did, Revolution is a form of government abroad,

Devolution is something to do with Satan.

Cereals are films shown at the pictures and which last 15 weeks. The Court of Chancery is so called because i,t takes cave of property when there is no chance of the owner turning up. The people in Iceland are called Equinoxes.

A cuckoo is a bird which lays over birds’ eggs in its own nest, and viva voce.

Queen Elizabeth was called the Virgil Queen because she knew Latin. A Limited Monarchy is a government by a monarch who, in case of bankruptcy, would not be entirely responsible for the national debt. You 'have the same thing in private life with a limited liability company. Gravity is that which if there were

William ordered liis archers to shoot at the thickest part of the English, so they shot upwards, so that their arrows might fall on the Englishmen’s heads. Sir Walter Scott wrote Questin Dorward, Ivanhoe, and Emulsion. Many ships use Calcutta as a coaling station —lienee the term Black Hole of Calcutta.

Charles II told the people they could get drunk or gamble or do what they liked. This Avas called the llestoration.

Magna Charta said that the King was not to order taxis Avithout the consent of Parliament. Simon de Montfort Avas a true Englishman, because he “fought against the

king ancl put him in prison. The Duke of Marlborough ay as a great general Avho always commenced a battle Avitli the fixed determination to ay in or lose.

The Fire of London did a great deal of good. It purified the city from the dregs of the Plague, and burnt down eighty-nine churches.