SCHOOLGIRL HOWLERS.
Boys aro not the only ones who make “howlers” at school. At a lecture given by Miss Spear, joint principal of a secondary school for girls, Bath (England), the following howlers by girls were vouched for: Joan o’ Arc’s father was a pheasant. Aaron was a good man who helped Moses with his conjuring tricks. At the battle of Crecy the soldiers found a Ford motor van, by which they crossed the river and were saved. Tho sun never sets on the British Empire, because the British Empire is in the cast and the sun sets in the_ west. God tried Abraham by giving him a wife and children.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20330, 11 February 1928, Page 12
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111SCHOOLGIRL HOWLERS. Otago Daily Times, Issue 20330, 11 February 1928, Page 12
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