Schoolboy Howlers.

All brutes are imperfect animals. Man alone is a perfect beast.

Herrings go about the sea in shawls.

There are many eligible fish in the Tasman Sea.

Some cows are very dangerous, especially the bull.

Lord Mayors of London are generally big business men, and they are invariably benighted.

Aden is a British coaling station at the bottom of the Red Sea.

Extempore is a disease in dogs.

Sapper is a substance which oozes from trees.

Give for any one year the number of bales of cotton exported from the United States. The applicant wrote: “1491. None.”

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