From the Caledonian Mercary of the 6th Inflant

... defperate Attempts and horrid Carnage, may be well pre. pased Jor-ibe Gocking Ciders which chey dre (0 exmonrg, agaiolt us, The APRIL FOOL. Sumg by Mr. Vernown, at Vavxuary, this Seafon. Set by Mr, Yatss. ONE April Morn, young Damon fought, O'er Sylvia to prevail ...

Published: Monday 25 July 1768
Newspaper: Coventry Standard
County: Warwickshire, England
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... That the foe were well beaten by Adminl'“l(bfl f Wh_le the very fame day Rodoey-open‘d 4 fehool, To prave every Frenchman an April fool, Bofcawen, Cornwallis, and Bridport in Jane Taught bor cap’ring neighbours to frifk to fome tune 3 And tho' well they got ...

Published: Monday 08 August 1803
Newspaper: Coventry Standard
County: Warwickshire, England
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POETRY

... the vi'let and primrose peep, { While many an insect L¢ gins to creep, ’ ‘ And ‘we see too often a dainty lass i Made an April fool by a snake in the grass, il _ So take the year round, &o.- 1 Then Mav succeeds, when the lark and thnth, Sing sweet on the ...

Published: Monday 16 January 1809
Newspaper: Coventry Standard
County: Warwickshire, England
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WOOL MARKET.—Friday, April 7

... that does not ** go on tick ™ can hard'y be ons dered ercditable, i SRR —— Mosxtury MeMs.—By A Cansy.—ArriL.— Lok out for April fools every day o' this mouth as well as the first, Weather given to change, but don’t you follor its example, “The Cabman as ...

Gallatown

... here without attem hoaxing, some sent on bootlesa errands, . got hnflr-lw their trouble. Addison in the Spectator the April fooling in his days, and the witty Dean of St Patrick describes an attempt he made to befool the public; and the custom had in ...

Published: Saturday 11 April 1874
Newspaper: St. Andrews Citizen
County: Fife, Scotland
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“ANCHOR” LINE

... u‘h:ul-hdlmyulsn.bo-nuda 1 dhhnothgolylAndAnf-dofiu of the deepest interest me.” ter ex an Wuhvbvfldhhhm Immfihm,mflvmmmm a‘“lst of April fool,” the vicar uded thus :— ““ As I used in my university to be considered, facile princeps, the first comic writer of us all ...

Published: Saturday 22 August 1874
Newspaper: St. Andrews Citizen
County: Fife, Scotland
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Tull and sl;;t};\ther .%_isuir at Derby

... church, I took it out and gave it to her to take up to the rectory of Great Woolston. My oak kneelers were out. It was April Fools' Day. T did not send it for that purpose. When I got into the church it was lying on the west side of the Communion. My ...

THE AFGHAN CAMPAIGN

... that the Germans call April 21 “ The Busstag,” meaning the Day of Repentauce. Too many a British lad and lass after the April Fool game of K'iul in the Ring,” have had reason to keep their Buss-tag as a day of repentance ever afterwards ! IvmTIALS ON ...

THE PETERBOROUGH SHOW

... first | prize winner in a similar class at Islington, was oul'y | Bluoq second, being beaten by Mr. George Strattons’s ; April Fool,” though there were many critics who did | not agree with the judges in this docision. The judging { was witnessed by a ...

SPORTING NOTES

... and perhaps that is their difliculty ; but unless they soon settle down it will be suggested that they intend to play the April fool. The compluint amongst the kuowing at Iffiey is that the crew there are doing too mueh work. The Cambridge Leut races are ...

THE OPENING CEREMONY

... Spink, and esars Fisher, Apglob{‘ Saxby, White. man, F, Wordsworth, and Farrer, and Mes, H. Fisher., A comic sketch, “ April Fools,” was given by Messrs. Whinstanley, Cartwright, aréd Hudson frem Wakefleld. Thursday's receipts came to ahout £3C. There ...

Published: Saturday 23 March 1889
Newspaper: Pontefract & Castleford Express
County: Yorkshire, England
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WIT AND HUMOUR

... and without thinking anythiog of the matter, I proceeded to help myself. Well, the confounded | bottle was ome of thoce April fool affairs that have a | musig box concealed inside, ‘“The machinery of the box is #o arranged that when it is tilted something ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1889
Newspaper: Lancaster Guardian
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 217 | Page: 9 | Tags: none