Father: What are you putting into your mouth? Son: A pin.

Father: Don’t do it! It’s not safe.

Son: Don’t worry, Dad. It’s a safety pin.

Bikram Baruah, Class V, Don Bosco High School, Guwahati

Biswajit: Arijit, why are you wearing your socks inside out?

Arijit: Because the right side has holes.

Suman Halder, Class V, Tiljala High School, Calcutta

Soldier: We are completely surrounded by the enemy!

Major: Excellent. Now we can attack in any direction.

Sampanna Chatterjee, Class V, Victoria Memorial School, Joka

Nidhi: Do you know that I have learnt astrology?

Deepika: Then tell me the day I will get married.

Nidhi: It will be on the same day as your husband.

Rakhi Jain, Class V, Ashok Hall Girls’ Higher Secondary School, Calcutta

Mother: Raman, remember to copy all the notes from the blackboard in class today.

Raman: Okay, Mom.

(After school)

Mother: Why didn’t you copy anything down, Raman? Your notebook is absolutely empty.

Raman: I wrote everything down, Mom. But when the lesson was over, the teacher erased the board. I erased my notebook too.

Suchismita Banerjee, Class VI, Sacred Heart Convent School, Calcutta

Raj: Do you know, my name was published in a book?

Dev: That’s great! Which book?

Raj: The telephone directory.

Damini Sarkar, Class V, Mahavir Institute of Education and Research, Calcutta

Amal: Do you know which reptile is best in geometry?

Bimal: No.

Amal: Snakes, because they have scales.

Bishwarup Biswas, Class VI, Cossipore English School, Dum Dum

John: I have invented a device that enables you to look through a wall.

George: I thought it was already invented. It is called a window.

Vansh Bucha, Class VIII, M.P. Birla School, Calcutta

Passenger: Is the train running on time?

Ticket collector: I thought it was running on wheels.

Subhajit Dey, Class IV, Vidyasagar Sishu Niketan, Midnapore

Cop (to man parking his car): Can’t you see this is a no-parking zone?

Man: But the sign says ‘‘Fine on parking’’.

Soumya Goswami, Class VIII, Ramakrishna Mission School, Rahara