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Show SCHOOLBOY WISDOM These examples of "howlers' may be added to the collection already published: "The masculine of vixen la vicar." "Polonlus was a mythical sausage." "Shakespeare lived at Windsor wltb his merry wives." "The king wore a scarlet robe trimmed with vermin." "A Soviet Is a cloth need by waiters wait-ers In hotels." (A serviette.) "Wolsey saved his life by dying on the way from Xork to London." "The minister of war Is the clergyman cler-gyman who preaches to soldiers." "The Immortal William Is a name applied to the former German emperor." em-peror." "Finally James n gave birth to a son, so the people turned him off the throne." "Barbarians are things put Into bicycle bi-cycle wheelB to make them run smoothly." "After twice eominltUng suicide, Cowper lived till 1800, when he died a natural death." "The sun never sets on the British Brit-ish empire because the empire Is In the east and the sun sets In the west." "Queen Elizabeth rode through Coventry with nothing on and Sir Walter Raleigh offered her his clonk." "Henry VIII was very cruel to Anne Boleyn and Ironed her." (The history had said, "He presesd his suit od i her.") Living Church. |