... hail thy coming gladly, when Wild mirth is monarch—madness rules, And we pronounce the sons of men— April fools—April fools ! A fig for Wisdom's solemn lore- It ploughs the brow with crooked wrinkles. No furrow will the forehead score, O'er wliich ...

... children made April fools. Nay, my landlady herself did not escape him. _ The empty fellow has laughed upon these conceits ever since. Then the writer tells of an ingenious tribe of men sptung up of late years, who are for making April fools every day ...

... surprise, the solicitor on reading it told him to quietly home, as the letter was a complete hoax. Ths joke of making 'an April fool’ has seldom been carried ao far.—‘Dundor Advettiser.’ ESCAPE op WILD BBASTS »»om MENAGERIE, A letter from to the' Pungolo’ ...

... extracted, for which the chiropodist charged £B. On the lit of April his highneu received 30 letter, try. big to make him an April fool. Three coats of sable made for him were charged .44,320 When visited by the Emperor's chamberlain he was found stooping ...

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... be at a house in the market-place. Thither with all speed they repaired, to their great mortification to be told IS was April fool day. BOILER EXPLOSIONS.—An influential deputation waited upon the Home Secretary to present a memorial on the constant ...

... gammon, and Shanklin Chine. Larks, coxcombs, and fair game. Magpie, piebald, and madcap pudding. Hot codlins, gooseberry and April fool, puifs and llummery. Sweets of oflice. Vegetable ivory and evergreens. Brawn and muscles. Creenwich rolls and Peckham Rye ...

... extracted, for which the chiropodist charged £B. On the Ist of April bis highness received 30 letters trying to make him April fool. Three coats of Russian sable made for him were charged J84.320} When visited tbe Emperor’s chamberlain he was found stooping ...

... be at a house in the market-place. Thither with all speed they repaired, to their great mortification to be told it was April fool day. Brought to Light. —As two lads, named Williams and Saunders, were looking for birds’ nests on the Portsmouth rsmparts ...

... to -.bis day. Why .this should be so is not very clear, inas- much as the gailors and not the prince would havo been the April fools on the occasion. A latter version of the same story would appear to be the correct one. Here the prince and his wife, escaping ...

... gossipy euts 011 April Fools ' Da y- This ,itjj*ll be serves up : 'th c attempt to make Apiil Fools of those in , > indeed, to avoid any appearance such an J, - f Wi ' after «time, have become sufficiently \ wuom ell-known April Fool story is ii • must ...

... extracted, for which the chiropodist charged On the Ist of April his highness received 30 letters trying to make him an April fool. Three coats of Russian sable made for him were charged £4,3201 When visited by the Emperor's chamberlain he was found stooping ...