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THE SUTHERLAND GOLDFIELDS

... to bis surprise, the solicitor reading it, told him to go quietly home, the letter was complete hoax. The joke making “an April fool” has seldom beeu carried far. —Dundee Advertiser. The Court of Session has just given a decision iu iuqiurtaut {Miint raised ...

TH ORC.% DIA N

... March, and this lent ilete better than the first of ApriL He who voluntarily defers planting until the last-named date is an April fool. Suppose they grow early, and the haulm is destroyed by frost in May ? It does them so little harm, and they recover so ...

Published: Tuesday 16 February 1869
Newspaper: Orcadian
County: Orkney, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1655 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE HEHALU, 'i Y, JANUARY 10, I«o7

... thrown away my brothers and me; and we found plenty of opportunities of tormenting the innocent old man. The first April, or April fool’s day’’ which it has been called from time immemorial, was the usual occasion selected for our Practical Jokes,” The Island ...