EXAMINATION HUMOURS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVII, Issue XLVII, 8 March 1912, Page 6

EXAMINATION HUMOURS.

The University correspondent publishes samples of examination blunders received in response to a prize offered for the " best twelve." A few are subjoined. » Latimer wa3-<i martyr who was tied to a .stake and said to Ridley, Cheer up, brother. Ridley, you'll soon be dead." The young Pretender was so called because it was pretended that he was bovnin a*frving-pan. The south of the U.S.A. grows oranges figs, melons, and a great quantity of preserved fruits, especially tinned meat.3. Milton married a young girl who ran back to her parents, so he wrote a sonnet on divorce. The saddest thing Kinjz John did w.n , to lose his crown in the laundry, , The American war was started because the people would persist in send- | ing their'parcels through the post with j out stamps. j Richard 111. is said to have been murdered by some historians; his real fate is uncertain. Si. Andrew is the patent saint of Scotland ; the patent saint of England i.-» Union Jack. A night watchman is a man employed to sleep in the open air. The Thunderer was launched by one of the Archbishop's wive*. The Home Office is where Home Ru'.is made. A bishop without a diocese is c.-'lled t suffragette. Artificial perspiratioji is the way t i make a person alive when they Are on just dead.