For Holiday Reading.

Waiapu Church Gazette, Volume XIII, Issue 6, 1 December 1922, Page 428

For Holiday Reading.

A few . howlers from "The American Child ": ; — ' ' There were no Christians among the early Gauls, they were mostly lawyers.'-' "In 1620 the Pilgrims crossed- the ocean and this is known as Pilgrim's Progress." ' r ' "Henry VIII. was very fat, besides being a Nonconformist.!' "The Puritans drove IJoger Wil- ; liams out of Massachusetts because he would "talk about God." ■'The Pyramids are a range of mountains' between France and' Spain;" ■•"Algebra .was the wife of- Euclid." - f ' Algebraical symbols" are used when you don't know what you are talking abbut.^ - ;.,,' _ _.

'"''Geometry teaches us how tp bisex angels." ' ■■■-, ,■".';'.. • "A vacuum is a large, empty place where the Pope lives." "The climate is caused by hot andeold weather." "A brute is an. imperfect beast ; man is a perfect beast. " Here are some more, from examination papers m Baltimore :— - A blizzard is the inside of a hen. _ A' circle is a round, straight line with a hole m the middle. : George Washington married Mary Custis and m due time became the father of his. country. Sixty gallons make one hedgehog. Georgia was founded by people who had beeri executed. A mountain range ise a large cock stove; Achilles was ; dipped m the river Styx to make him 'normal. Pompeii was destroyed' by an eruption of saliva from the Vatican. Typhoid fever is prevented by fascination. ' W Church Times."