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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 4, Issue 4 (August 1, 1929)

Schoolboy Howlers

Schoolboy Howlers.

Melba—where Napoleon was imprisoned.

A circle is a round straight line with a hole in the middle.

The liver is situated south of the stomach.

A vacuum is nothing shut up in a box. They have a way of pumping out the air. When all the air and everything else is shut out, naturally they are able to shut in nothing, where the air was before.

Algebra was the wife of Euclid.

Water is composed of two gins, oxygin and hydrogin, oxygin is pure gin, hydrogin is gin and water.

A magnet is a thing you find in a bad apple.

Explain the word “buttress.” A woman who makes butter.

The masculine of lass is ass.

Imports are ports very far inland.

Coal is decayed vegetarians.

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