Howlers.

A lock-out is a man who comes home too late.

Snoring is letting off sleep.

A barrister is a thing which is put up in the street to keep the crowds back.

With a view to comparing old-time means of transport with present-day facilities, a class was invited to write an imaginary dialogue between a cab-horse and an aeroplane. This is how one boy opened: Horse: “What is that blasted thing up in the air?”

In the eighteenth century travelling was very romantic, most of the high roads were only bridal paths.

What is the correct name for a five-shilling piece? A bob.

The White Feather. A feather that is white in colour as a White Leg Horn's is.

The embalmed body of an Egyptian is called a dummy.

A knave is a man which works on the tramlines.

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From a boy's letter to his chum: “You know Bob Jones's neck? Well he fell in the river up to it.”