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Show "Howlers" from Test Papers. Describing a famous battle one schoolboy wrote: "When the last French attack at Waterloo proved a failure Napoleon turned very pale and rode at full gallop to St. Helena." In an English test a high fechool girl said: "After twice committing suicide, Cowper lived till 1800, when he died a natural death." To the question why Mohammedanism Mohammed-anism makes the Turks reckless in battle, this reply was given: "The courage of the Turks in battle is explained ex-plained by the fact that a man with more than one wife is more willing to face death than if he had only one." |