SCHOOL BOY’S BLUNDER

Waikato Times, Volume 94, Issue 14713, 30 July 1921, Page 12 (Supplement)

SCHOOL BOY’S BLUNDER

THE PICK OF A COLLECTION. A rich collection of schoolboy “howlers” was given in the University Correspondent recently. This journal offered a prize for the best collection of amusing schoolboy mistakes. Here are a few of the best; — William the Conqueror at the Battle of Hastings ordered his archers to shoot at the thickest part of the English, so they shot upwards that the arrows might fall on the Englishmen’s heads. In the reign of Henry VIII. the head of the Church fell into the hands of the Kins.

The Duke of Marlborough yjas a great general, who always commenced a battle with the fixed determination to win or lose.

Magna Charla said that the King was not to order (axis without the consent of Parliament-

The Fire of London did a great deal of good. It purified the city from the dregs of the plague, and burnt, down 89 churches. Simon de Montfort was a true Englishman because he fought against the King and put him in prison. A vacuum is nothing shut up in a boxSir Water Scott wrote Quentin. Durward, Ivanhne, and Emulsion. A candidate for lire Chli Service must be a neutralised British subject. Examinations may be written or vice versa.

The cold at. Mm North Pole is so great that the towns there are not. inhabited. Liberty of conscience means doing wrong and not worrying about it afterwards. If care is not (alien with dusty corners microscopes will breed there. The, only sign of life in the. Tundras are a few stunted eornscs.

The largest standing army in Europe belongs to France. It numbers 800.OPO men. Poland comes second, with 600.000. and Italy third, with 300.000. Germany officially possesses a regular army of 100,000.