"One of the fringe benefits of being an English or History teacher is receiving the occasional jewel of a student blooper in an essay. I have pasted together the following 'history' from certifiably genuine writings collected by teachers throughout the United States, from eighth grade through college level. Read carefully, and you will learn a lot." -- Richard Lederer, St. Paul School
Please note that all typos are from the original text. :)
The inhabitants of ancient Egypt were called mummies. They
lived in the Sarah Desert and traveled by Camelot. The climate of
the Sarah is such that the inhabitants have to live elsewhere, so
certain areas of the dessert are cultivated by irritation. The
Egyptians built the Pyramids in the shape of a hugh triangular cube.
The Pramids are a range of mountains between France and Spain.
The Bible is full of interesting caricatures. In the first
book of the Bible, Guinesses, Adam and Eve were created from an
apple tree. One of their children, Cain, once asked, "Am I my
brother's son?" God asked Abraham to sacrifice Isaac on Mount
Montezuma. Jacob, son of Isaac, stole his brother's birth mark.
Jacob was a patriach who brought up his twelve sons to be
partriarchs but they did not take to it. One of Jacob's sons,
Joseph, gave refuse to the Israelites.
Pharaoh forced the Hebrew slaves to make bread without straw.
Moses led them to the Red Sea, where they made unleaveded bread,
which is bread made without any ingredients. David was a Hebrew
king skilled at playing the liar. He gought with the Philatelists,
a race of people who lived in Biblical times. Solomon, one of
David's sons, had 500 wives and 500 porcupines.