... APRIL FOOL April Fool Day is not so popular as it used to be. At one time, however, all sorts of silly jokes were played upon small boys. One that re-appeared every year consisted of sending * k° y bookshop to buy “The Life and Adventures of Eve’s Mother ...

... APRIL FooL. The April fish, the poisaonsd'Avril, is the ' l French term for what we call an April fool. The custom of sending people on fool's errands on April Ist is probably due to the change of the calendar in France in 1564; but there • Hindu ...

... April Fool April I. or All Fools* Day. not a purely British custom, having been celebrated in India from time immemorial by a festival known as the Holi. It is celebrated much the same in this country, with the exception that the voung Hindus are addicted ...

... APRIL FOOL. The April fish, the poisson d'Avril, is the French term for what we call an April fool. The custom of sending people on fool's errands on April Lit is probably due to the change of the calendar in France in 1564; but there is Hindu feast ...

... APRIL FOOL, fly HARRY LEE. Do you remember how we walked That sunny-showery day to school— That day of days—and how I vowed That none should dub me April Fool Do you remember how I shunned The pitfalls—and how, over-vain, I boasted, all the homeward ...

... AN APRIL FOOL. TI ere is an Cunifierland worthy named Toni H who has reached the mature age of eighty, but his eye is not yet dim nor his rustle wit abated. A pert young fellow tried to play a trick upon him the First of April, but the old man was not ...

... APRIL FOOL. Tiie followiug story, illustrative of the dangers of April fooling, is taken from daily paper of the year 1817 :—A gay young Parisienne, bent on making her bosom friend un poisson d'Avril, took temporary possession of jewelled watch. Her ...

... The April Fool. MY EARLIEST RECOLLECTION. BY A DUNDEE READER. My earliest recollection is a of a .bright fitst April morning. I i\as playing by myself a short distance from home our grieve came up to me with pair of boots in his hand. Holding them to ...

... Was I An April Fool? Pondering over the black moments which, in spite of myself, I experienced between January and March 31, I have often wondered if the fortune-teller, subsidised by my folly, had a perverted sense of humour and chose March as my month ...

... “APRIL FOOL*' TRAGEDY. BURNING WOMAN ALLOWED TO BURN. How the call of a woman for when on fire was treated attempt to make fellow-servants “April fools” has just been related at, a Lewisham inquest Muriel Hope Tall. According to the evidence, she died ...

... sitting article, which pictures a highly diverting First of April We an author. of escaping footsteps, and the cry of“ April Fool! April Fool, daddy!” Now I ask you! ** * It is quite likely that by the time the author has recovered sufficiently to sit down ...

... April Fool ’’ T talk which Scottish listeners “Apel to hear to-morrow 1s of an a foolish ” nature. It is gives by Muir © ee the identity of one of Edinbu humorous writers and speakers. ele ue talk “* Ovetlooked from Underneath,” and it pretends to be ...