BLUNDERS.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume VI, Issue 35, 30 August 1890, Page 19

BLUNDERS.

'Some curious examples of blunders are given to the world ■from time to time by examiners. One boy says— 1 The day is longer in summer owing to expansion by the heat.’ Another explains that ‘ the upper course of a river is when it travels up country, the middle course when it goes on a level. ‘Once a year,’ a third informs us, ‘we have the whole bright side of the sun turned towards us. Then it is summer. The sun is in the solstice and stands still.’ Not less novel is the discovery that ‘ a bar is a piece of iron across a river mouth. It prevents navigation, and has to be cut through with a steam edge.’ There is at least something ■startlingly suggestive in the intelligence that ‘ the Barons •compelled John to sign the pledge at Runnyinede.’