Question: Where are nurses treated?

Answer: Nursery schools.

ASHMITA DAS, Class IV, Hem Sheela Model School, Durgapur

Teacher: Children, write a letter and then draw an envelope below.

(A little later)

Teacher: Mohan, why have you drawn just the envelope? Where’s your letter?

Mohan: Madam, the letter is inside the envelope.

KAUSTAV GHOSH, Class VI, Mansur Habibullah Memorial School, Calcutta

Question: What is the only thing that you can serve but cannot eat?

Answer: A tennis ball.

Tathagata Bhowmik, Class VI, Don Bosco School, Calcutta

Two lazy men were lying on the roadside with a blanket. Just then a thief came and took their blanket away.

First man: Look, that man is running away with our blanket.

Second man: Don’t worry, we’ll catch him when he returns to steal our

pillow.

PRATEEK JHA, Class V, Delhi Public School, Bhadrak, Bokaro

One day, a little kid walks into a movie theatre. At the counter, he buys one ticket and then goes in. Suddenly, he comes outside and buys another one.

Man at the counter: Why do you want another ticket?

Child: Because that man over there, ripped the other one!

MANINI SAHA, Class VII, Julien Day School, Ganganagar

Teacher: Debu, tell me what’s the future tense of the sentence ‘I have killed a person’. Debu: ‘You will go to prison, sir!’

DEBJYOTI SADHU, Class VII, Saltora

Dr B.C. Vidyapith, Bankura

Junior cop: Sir, why do criminals leave behind their fingerprints after committing a crime? Senior cop: Because they are illiterate. If they’d been literate, they would have left their signatures behind.

Yash Agarwal, Class VI, Sarwan

Memorial School, Banarhat

Reena: Do you think one can predict the future with the help of cards? Meena: My mom can. I only have to show her my report card and she can exactly predict what will happen when my dad gets home.

Kishor Kumar Roy, Class VIII, St Joseph’s High School, Assam

There’s a robbery in a house. Man (to domestic help): Go to the police and tell them that at midnight when the stars were twinkling and the dogs were barking, a thief jumped over the wall and stole our cow.

The domestic help goes to the police.

Domestic help (to the police): My master wanted me to tell you that at midnight when the stars were barking and the dogs were twinkling, a thief jumped over the cow and stole our wall.

Neelofar Fatima, Class V, Indira English Medium School, Calcutta