... literature” I fascinated the far too yielding hearts of the vestry. thinks the Vicar. Well, the Whigs shut me just after April Fool Day. and certain Tory visiting justices contrived to prevent my clerk seeing me with my papers, to enable me to apply’for ...

... More than half the nation ignores Christmas; the celebration of Washington's birthday in February is becoming obsolete ; April Fools-day, once very generally observed, now passes almost unnoticed ; and the First of May is only a local holiday in New York ...

... 1866, and by the way . Mr. Bailey seemed particularly fond of April : he did not know whether it was the first of April—(April fool; and laughter)—he thought this was the first April : but Mr. Bailey said I purpose doing something. I expect the Queen ...