A Schoolboy Howler.

One of the brightest examples of schoolboy howlers was chronicled during the interrogation of an upper standard in a Gisborne school recently. The interrogator, one of the Education Board's Inspectors, asked the pupils to write down the feminine of a series of nouns which he would give them. Among the nouns was “buck,” and one bright young scholar without the slightest hesitation wrote as its feminine the word “buckshee.”

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