A man was talking to a small boy...

Man: What is your age?

Boy: I am eight years old.

Man: And what is your father’s age?

Boy: He is also eight years old.

Man: How can that be?

Boy: Uncle, he became a father when I was born!

PRIYANKA AGRAWAL, Class VII, Modern High School for Girls, Calcutta

Question: Why should Brian Lara and Sachin Tendulkar play in the same team?

Answer: Because they both are West Indians!

Pratyoy Das, Class IV, St Agnes Branch School, Hijli, Kharagpur, West Bengal

Teacher: Where is Bill today?

Belinda: In bed, Miss.

Teacher: What’s the matter with him? Is he ill?

Belinda: We were having a competition to see who could lean out of the window farthest and Bill won the competition.

Dhritiman Debbarman, Class VII, Ramakrishna Mission, Agartala,Tripura

Historian: Mathematician, watch out! I have deployed a thousand Mughal soldiers.

Mathematician: You cannot scare me. I will put all your soldiers within brackets and multiply that with zero.

Shaikh Anjum Shehzad, Class VI, Kendriya Vidyalaya, Ranchi, Jharkhand

A boy was caught stealing a watch...

Police: Why are you wasting your life stealing such things? Why don’t you do something better?

Boy: What to do? By the time school gives over, all the banks close!

Nimisha Jain, Class VII, St Teresa’s Secondary School, Calcutta

Two boys were talking...

First boy: My father is afraid of crossing the road.

Second boy: What makes you say that?

First boy: You don’t know what he does! He always holds my hand while crossing the road.

Nazish Khan, Class I, St Thomas Boys’ School, Calcutta

Teacher: What is the outside of the tree called?

Sam: I don’t know, Sir.

Teacher: Bark, Sam, bark.

Sam: Bow, wow, wow.

Shubham Sawoo, Class VI, The Scottish Church Collegiate School, Calcutta

Servant: Master, shall I water the plants?

Master: You fool! Can’t you see it’s raining?

Servant: It does not matter, master. I will use an umbrella while watering the plants.

Mantosh Kumar, Class VIII, B.I. Vidyalaya, Bokaro, Jharkhand

Gopu: Doctor, why are you giving me an injection?

Doctor: Keep quite. This is a painkiller.

Gopu: If it is a painkiller, why is it paining so much?

Arkajyoti Chakrabarti, Class V, Kendriya Vidyalaya, Maligaon, Guwahati, Assam