... gammon, and Shanklin Chine. Larks, coxcombs, and fair game. Magpie, piebald, and madcap padding. Hot codiins, gooseberry and April fool, puffs and flummery. Sweets of office. Vegetable irory and erergreens. Brawn muscle*. Greenwich rolls and Peckham Rye bread ...

... living or deepemte speculations— these four are April fools. He who ha* climbed, or suffered himself U be lifted to a station for which he is until, does but stand upon* a pedestal, to show the world an April fool. The grey haired man, who has sought the joys ...

... of wonder*, or refuses acknowledge the allpervading presence of an infinitely-wise intelligence, must be, if not mad, An April fool indeed. Assuming a of 0 01 of inch, or 224 gallons, to constitute a rainy day, there were twelve rainy days April. On the ...

... d'Avril to this day. Why this should be so is not Terr clear, inasmuch as the gaolers and not the prince would hare been the April fool* on the occasion. A later version of the same story would appear to be the correct one. Here the prince and his wife, escaping ...

... to attempt to make April Fools of those in authority; it is advisable, indeed, to avoid any appearance of such attempt. This truth must, after time, have become sufficiently plain to the French lady, of whom a well-known April- Fool story is told. This ...

... medueval folk .ore. Idioticor malicious practical joke* are yet perpetrated among the classes toe l*t of April; and O. you April Fool, expression which not yet entirely aiveatra purport or aignifioaocc; but in good society to “make April any one would be ...

... is highly comical itself, and the droll illustrations heighten greatly the humour of the letterpress description. The April Fool is a pass- able story. The famous Whittington thrice Lord Mayor of London as the story book has it, is the subject of ...

... “Come, gentle Spring! ethereal Mildness ! come ? —Pol/ Mol/ Gazette. Priests Made April Fools.—a newspaper published Brescia rslates how 200 priest* were made April fools on the Ist Inst. It says s—“ Our oity was not a little astonished on Tuesday, the ...

... was tho Ist April, and, as they have an , April-fool” custom in France, the independent depu! tic-sand intendingindependent candidates might pardoned if they concluded that tho Minister was making “April-fools” of them all. Hisdistinctions were without ...

... of Lord Twaedmottth'a Departmental Committee, seem to be regarded large claaaes of the •uppoeed beoeheianaa piece of April fooling of exceedingly exasperating character. Alter years of agitation for better rates of pay and better system of classifia ...

... dignified.” Saturday was April 2nd. Had it been the first of the month, the Commons, according to the Olobe, would have made April fools of the Lords. On Saturday the Royal assent was to have been given to the Peace Preservation Bill, and several of their lordships ...

... Telegraph Department who caused a false despatch to be sent to the Press Aaso- « A -i V i » ?? of the boat race» order to mak» April fools of the newspapers, has been suspended by Mr. bcudamore, pending the decision of the Postmaster- General respecting him ...