Mother: Why are you jumping on the letter?

Daughter: The man in the post office had asked me to stamp it before dropping it in the mailbox.

Sayantani Modak, Class VI, Loreto Day School, Calcutta

Kailash went to a doctor with both his ears red.

Doctor: What happened?

Kailash: I was ironing my school shirt and the phone rang. Instead of picking up the phone I picked up the iron and pressed it to my ear.

Doctor: What happened to the other ear?

Kailash: That stupid man called again.

Deep dutta , Class VIII, Sunrise Academy English High School, Assam

Teacher: Your answers for the science test weren’t very good.

Student: That’s okay. Neither were your questions.

Noma Nazish, Class VIII, Kendriya Vidyalaya, Shillong, Meghalaya

Mother: Sohan, your exams are knocking on the door.

Sohan: Don’t worry, I won’t open the door.

Ajit Kumar Patel, Class VI, Trinity High School, Jalpaiguri

A gentleman is sick. The prescribed medicine is black in colour. One day his servant gave him ink instead of the medicine. On realising his mistake, he runs to his master.

Servant: Master, please forgive me as I made you have ink instead of your medicine.

Master: Don’t worry. I will eat some blotting paper to absorb the ink.

Upasana Choudhury, Class VIII, Delhi Public School, Bongaigaon, Assam

Sunil: Shyam your daughter is dead.

Shyam: Oh! God.

Saying so he jumps down from the 100th floor. At the 50th floor he realises that he doesn’t have a daughter. At the 25th floor he remembers that he isn’t married and at the 10th floor he realises that he is Ram and not Shyam.

Mrigakshi Barman, Class IV, Pragjyotish English Medium High School, Guwahati

Teacher: Who can tell me what a pineapple is?

Student: It’s an apple that hangs from a pine tree.

Subhadeep Majumdar, Class V, Barrackpore Government High School, West Bengal

Rahul and Atul were playing a quiz. The condition being, for each wrong answer one would have to pay Rs 5 to the other.

Rahul: Atul, can you name a pen that can talk.

Not knowing the answer Atul hands over Rs 5 to Rahul.

Atul: Now tell me the right answer.

Hearing which Rahul had to return Atul’s Rs 5.

Kaushaya Ganguly, Class VIII, La Martiniere for Boys, Calcutta