... day That sent the simple heart a-fooling,”” is ealled “a Gowk’s errand,” an “ April errand,” Hant the gowk.” Sometimes the April fool was the bearer of a missive containing this distich,— “ The first and second day of April, Hound (or hunt or send) the gowk ...

... stop and attempt to increase their finances, then start on with metaphorical flea in each ear. muttering somethiug about April fool. At length a small came along, kicked vigorously at the coin, comprehended the situation, and walked off. He soon returned ...

... hobbyhorsing was kept up. In Westmoreland, it was customary to make May goslings, custom similar to that observed on April-Fools' Day. Illustrated London News. ...

... exhibited, inter alia, the famous Indian rope trick, by dint of which the Davenport Brothers for a time succeeded in making April fools of half die dwellers in Cockaigne he successful exposure of these impostors by Mr Tolmaque must be fresh in the recollection ...

... seems that 55,905 little boys girls saw the light Paris in ; and, oddly enough, the greatest number of births occurred on April Fool'sday, viz., 250. The largest number of births occurred in the poorest arrondissement—to wit, Belleville and the surrounding ...

... was perpetrated on Easter Sunday at the expense of several hundreds of holiday makers, who fairly earned the cognomen of April fools. Some mischievous persons appear to have printed tickets of admission to the Zoological Society's Gardens on the Ist of ...

... to what becomes of the first, or where gets the second mind from, you had better refer the Lord Chief Justice of England. April Fool.—The new postage stamps issued the Ist ultimo do not lick the old ones hollow. (From Funny Folks.) Meet It Would Be. —lt ...

... asked him his name after h* had been>ome time abroad, and he told me t could call him liked, and called the lot of them April fools. The L >rd Chief Justice : to understand you he did ilot teli. you hia nam^? Witness: No, not till a t.me after. Mr. : month ...