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MASTER PUNCH'S COPY BOOK

... a host in him- self.-Punch. AN APRIL FooL.-The Reform speecbes termi- nated at a quarter to one o'clock in the morning of the first I of April. An appropriate ending to so foolish a beginning I I But the real April Fool in this protracted practical joke ...

EXTRACTS FROM THIS WEEK'S PUNCH

... that the Germans call April 21st The Buss-tag,> meaning the Day of Repentance. Too many a British lad and lass after the April Fool game of Kiss in the Ring, have had reason to keep their Buss- tag as a day of repentance ever afterwards! l l i i i I ...

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... statistical and other. inforrualtior, valuable to all who have dealings with Brcitish North America. APRIL FOOLS. Who has not been made an April fool once at any rate in the course of his life'? Who has not when young gone swift and glad, or been sent ...

LITERATURE

... ovingvicar w as afte.war'15 c or'teut i ioraiie r without m usic as heretofore. There was err l erlof s of 'making an April fool, b Y g t ienrd tha fol hoax a letter containing the wards adrofo i T These credential s been duly delvered, one lso, llott ...

LITERATURE

... to this day, Why this should be so is not very .clear, inasmuch as the jailers and not the prince would have been the April fools on the occasion. A later version .p1 the same story whould appear to be the correct one. Here ihe prince and his wife, eosa ...