The Archive · 1927

Some New Howlers

A lady teacher in a Manchester school writes to her brother in Shanghai as follows:

We're very busy at school just! inow with exams, Here's some "howers" of the 1928 vintage:—

"Jearus soared up to the sky' ike an eagle (an Eastern bird) but fell dawn like a plammet (another Eastern bird)."

The next refers to Proserpine, something to do with sfatthew! Arnold's Poem of "Phosferine knew every flower in the Fields of Henna This is one of the girls' choices "I, 0. U—an expression used by the Roman Catholic and other! churches: it means Father, Sop and Holy Ghost."

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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