... search was called a gowk and a fooL In England, a person foolishly imposed upon in the above-mentioned manner was called an April fool, and in France an April fish (Un 2mofooca dcAvril). The custom seems to have been very an- cient, and some antiquaries ...

... wit to this day. Why this should be so id uot very lear, inasmuch as the jailers and nit the prince woeid have been the April fools on the miccasuou. A later version of the same story would appear to bh the correct one. Here the priuce e oi his woe, escaping ...

... and fined lOs. or 10 days imprison- ment. The fines were paid. I B LANTYRE. AFBII, FooLS-A number of people were made April fools in our neighhourbood on account of a paragraph finding its way into one of our local papers on Satorday the first of April ...

... five hundred influential 1( gentlemen, but we decidedly object that the English ax people should be made to appear like April fools in fir the eyes of foreigners, through these self-elected and lo be-ribboned representatives. te. We have already given ...