... and deliver; the young Man judging they were of his Ac- quaintance, ask'd very merrily, if they had a mind to make him an April Fool ? But they soon convinc'd him of his Mistake for one of them tripp'd up his Heels, and afterwards robb'd him of three Half ...

... of vindicating themfelves, and make the people underftand the reafonablenefs of their late condud. Universal Spectator, April Fools of different Complexions. THere are fome men who either have, or affed to have, fuch an obitinate averfion to every abfurd ...