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Water Symphony FISHING WITH A CAMERA H. E. TOWNER COSTON

... Excellent material, admirably presented, can be read with much profit . .. brilliant and original. 9/- net. The Field * April Fool A NOVEL BY GEORGE RODERICK Author of ·· • Gimcrack An exciting story to those who are interested in racing it will ...

Published: Friday 07 January 1949
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 192 | Page: 48 | Tags: none

been acting for a well known connoisseur, and Mr. Lionel Crichton. The bidding was \'ery keen ; but the latter

... your shoe's unbuckled,' and the moment the accosted individual looked towards his feet the informant would cry: ' Ah, you April fool! ' Twenty years ago, when buckles were wholly disused, the urchin-cry was: ' ir, your shoe's untied.' NO\\·, when neither ...

Published: Saturday 28 March 1914
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 524 | Page: 52 | Tags: none

March roll-April fool

... March roll-April fool. This is a saying that is confined to areas of heavy clay arable land, and in the e days of tractors has even more point than before. How often after a few days of drying March wind is the you ng and inexperienced heavy-land farmer ...

Published: Friday 11 May 1945
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 352 | Page: 18 | Tags: none

COUNTRY LiFE

... spring up from behind the hedge which they had believed to shelter them. April fools, haw, haw! I cl' 'low ye be a proper pair on 'em ! April fool, H annah ! ye an April fool ! \i\T e took in the pair o' ye nicely ! This was the chorus which greeted ...

Published: Saturday 22 December 1906
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2686 | Page: 60 | Tags: none

together with extremely long chains of beads, pearls or other gems

... directly beneath has an entirely different aspect. She wears a Folly dress, a species of carnival costume; or, if you prefer, April Fool. It would look well carried out in pale yellow, blue and white ; the skirt of yellow ninon would have a tunic cf pale blue ...

Published: Saturday 07 December 1912
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2131 | Page: 159 | Tags: none

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... is so obviously distinct from these, set him into a reverie by their very notion and remembrance. Praed promised to make April fool~ of mankind when he was in a sardonic mood by a show of optimism: And to the world I publish gaily That all things are im ...

Published: Saturday 12 June 1909
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 4063 | Page: 52 | Tags: none

Rain on Good Friday, and wet Easter Day, Plenty of g rass but little good hay

... connection between the weather prevailing at :g:aster and the weather for the re t of the Spring and Summer. March roll-April fool. This is a saying that is confined to areas of heavy clay arable land, and in the e days of tractors has even more point ...

Published: Friday 11 May 1945
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1915 | Page: 18 | Tags: none

BOOKS FOR FISHERMEN

... connection it is worth recalling that no references to April Fools' Day have been found in our earlier literature, and it seems that this country has derived the fashion from France, where April Fools' Day is a very ancient institution, and where the dupe ...

Published: Saturday 06 August 1921
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 4622 | Page: 61 | Tags: none

A COUNTRYMAN'S NOTES

... suitable joke for April 1. On tl'lis day Nature and the British Army combined brought off a m st successfu l leg-pull of the April Fool variety so far as my wife \l,le were dri,·ing into a southern town through and I were concerned. \l,le were dri,·ing into ...

Published: Saturday 19 April 1941
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2181 | Page: 20 | Tags: none

Dec. 7th, 1912 .] Supplement to COUNTRY LIFE. KNIGHTI FRANK & RUTLEY 20, HANOVER SQUARE, W. TELEPHONE: 1942 ..

... directly beneath has an entirely different aspect. She wears a Folly dress, a species of carnival costume; or, if you prefer, April Fool. It would look well carried out in pale yellow, blue and white ; the skirt of yellow ninon would have a tunic cf pale blue ...

Published: Saturday 07 December 1912
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 14849 | Page: 159 | Tags: none