SCHOOLBOY HOWLERS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 7 November 1907, Page 4

SCHOOLBOY HOWLERS.

Here are some more schoolboy howlore: One boy, in answer to the question, "What is an angle!" said, "An angle, is the exclamation made by two lines meeting in a plain." Some others anßwet6 are :—

"The battle of Hastings was fought at Shrewsbury." "The Court of Com moo* Pleas Bhould be stationary and go through each county four times a year."

"At Bamwckborn the Scots placed lioneycoaihs in the ground, which threw the English into confusion." (The real meaning is, of course, "that tlie ground was honeycombed with pits.") "The Black Prince extinguished himself at Cre.y; he afterwards returned borne staggered with health and debts." Wat Tyler "led the pheasants revolt; he was himself a pheasant." "Richard I. was taken prisoner by the Duke of Austria; he was afterwards ransacked."

"My favorite character in English history is Henry VIIL, because he bad eight wive*, and lolled them all."

"The cause of the Peasants' Revolt was that a shilling poultice should be put on everybody over sixteen."

"The Feudal system lies between the Bomber and the Thames."

"The chief clause in Magna Charta was that no free man should be put to death or imprisoned without bis own consent." "One semibreve equal to two nrnions 'and one crochet four semiskews."

"An optimist is a man who looks after your eyes, and a pessimist is a man who looks after your feet."

Had Mr Root sent the midline on ahead be would have struck this bank, and in e»l probability the machine would have been pitched on to the iailroad tracks. As it was the car smashed into the side- of the engine tender and bounded back hurling the occupants high in the air and far from the nib.

A ouriius legal point has arisen in connection with the estates rf Mr and Mr-, Root and the aunt of the former. AH thiee dkd within a few minutes after the occtdeot, acd before settling the estates tie Coerta wiL' have to decide who died lint.