BOYS’ HUMOUR.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 230, 28 August 1929, Page 2

BOYS’ HUMOUR.

HOWLERS BY PUPILS. PARENTS’ LETTERS, TOO. Amusing “howlers” made by London children, and collected by Mr Thomas Gautrey, for some years a member of the London County Council Education Committee, are given in the current issue of the London Teacher. The answer one small boy gave to the question, “Who were the Pharisees?” was this:— “The Pharisees were a mean lot. One of them offered Jesus a penny; but our Lord said: ’Whose is this subscription?’” . One boy, describing the burial of the widow’s son at Nam, wrote: “The funeral was a glorious one, it took four men to carry the beer.” It was a Peckham boy, reproducing from memory the Lord’s Prayer, who wrote: “Hallowed be Rye Lane.” Asked what Joseph would have died from had he been left in the pit, a logical boy of six retorted, “Pity.” PLAYED “MARBELS.” Of the curious letters sent by parents to teachers which Mr Gautrey quotes, perhaps this is one of the best: “Most Educated Lady, and I hope you will pardon me for asking you for some clothes for the children, as I have had no work for several weeks. Trade is not very bright, and I hope, Angel Lady, you will not forget them, as I cannot afford to get them any, especially now. I hope you will be blessed from the Almighty. Hoping for an early reply, your humble servant, Mr Solomans.” A long - suffering parent wrote : “Will Mr Parsons kindly do a parent a kindness by threatening _ the boys a syvear punishment for sitting down playing marbels such a day as yesterday. I remain, sir, yours obediently, a parent who detests the name of Marbels at this time of the year.” Another parent, resenting a protest made against the appearance at school of her daughter in curling papers, wrote:—“Allow me, dear Madam, to inform you that my child shall come to school as I think becoming, whether she looks pleasant in your eyes or not . . and if I hear any more nonsense I shall be compelled to bring this before the board.”