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Show MORE "HOWLERS." ! The most extensive collection of "schoolboy howlers" to be published as a single contribution to this class of literature was the compilation made by Kaymond G. Fuller aud printed in "The American Child." With permission, per-mission, it was in part reproduced in The Tribune of August 31. The column col-umn attracted wide attention and caused no end of amusement. As a companion piece to Mr. Fuller's list of "bowlers" is one found in tbe London Spectator, which Journal vouches for their genuineness. Boms of the choicest onos follow: "Deliota majorum irameritus lues." C'You undetervedly suffer for the sini of your fathers." From Horace. 1 "The delights of our ancestors were unmitigated filth." ''CUssionm esni jubet." ( " Hi orders the signal to be given." From Csessr's "Gallle Wars.'"! "He orders a kennel for his dog. ' ' " L'sau was a writer of fables who sold bis coprright for a mass of potash." pot-ash." "Tho Stoics were the followers of Zero and believed in nothing." "Pas de deux." (A dance by two persons. French Idiom. 1 "lather of twins. ' ' "II recommenda son ane a Diou." ("Hi entrusts his soul to the Lord.'"l "He wag bidding his donkey good- by. " "The conquest of Ireland was begun be-gun in 117" an , ,fi going on." "The alimentary canal runs from Buffalo to Albany, ind was planned bv UcWitt Clinton." "The oontents of the abdomen nre the stomach, liver, kidneys and vowels, vow-els, of which there nre five, a, a, I, 0, u, and sometimes w and y. " "Omnia Gallia divisn gj (n pr tes trcs. " ("'All Gaul is divided into three purfs. '' The opening senteuce In Csessr's "Gallic Wars." taught in lecond year Lnt'n.l ' A J I Qta quartered into three halve. " "Anna virumrtuo enno. " C"T sing of arms and tho tnnn." Ongoing lines of Virgil's "Aeneud.", j Ulun with a d ig and s gun ! " "Tho companion of ill is ill, sink, dead." |