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MASTER PUNCH'S COPY BOOK

... a host in him- self.-Punch. AN APRIL FooL.-The Reform speecbes termi- nated at a quarter to one o'clock in the morning of the first I of April. An appropriate ending to so foolish a beginning I I But the real April Fool in this protracted practical joke ...

EXTRACTS FROM THIS WEEK'S PUNCH

... that the Germans call April 21st The Buss-tag,> meaning the Day of Repentance. Too many a British lad and lass after the April Fool game of Kiss in the Ring, have had reason to keep their Buss- tag as a day of repentance ever afterwards! l l i i i I ...

LITERATURE

... statistical and other. inforrualtior, valuable to all who have dealings with Brcitish North America. APRIL FOOLS. Who has not been made an April fool once at any rate in the course of his life'? Who has not when young gone swift and glad, or been sent ...

Reviews

... rare en- it tertainment for all joke-loving readers. We subjoin lan- afew joes from aitu THdE TALKt OV THE MOtOTHt.PU THE APRIL FOOL OF THE MONTS1-The Earl of St. fide Germans played off some capitalls lskes on the first of chi, April. Most of the letters ...

Reviews

... does not afford rare en- tertainment for all joke-lovin.g readers. We subjoin a few jokes from TUE T sAU OF THE MONTH. THE APRIL FOOL OF THIZ MoNT4.-The Earl of St. Germans played off some capital Jokes on the first of April. Most of the letters which should ...

LITERATURE

... ovingvicar w as afte.war'15 c or'teut i ioraiie r without m usic as heretofore. There was err l erlof s of 'making an April fool, b Y g t ienrd tha fol hoax a letter containing the wards adrofo i T These credential s been duly delvered, one lso, llott ...

Poetry

... loottrp. APRIL FOOLS. gE who mourneth day by day That his youth doth pass away Like the blossoms on the tree, Sure arn April-fool must be: For the blossoms fade and die That the tree may fruit supply; So youth fled, we e'er should find Fruitful wisdom ...

Poetry

... loertr P. APRIL FOvLS. XEi who mourrptli day by day Thathis youth doth pass away Like the blossoms on the tree, Sure an April-fool must be: For the blossoms fade and die That the tree may fruit supply; So youth tied, we e'er should find Fruitful wisdom ...

Poetry

... left behind. lie wtho lives to garnet gold, Selling what should ueer be sold, Bartering peace for dross, why he Sure an April-fool muist be; lany who'd have mourn'd his end W~il rejeicO that they may spend; For the itngots lie may save, yone will bury ...

Reviews

... a-liner- much better conceived than described. FIFTERes MIirmoN AvriL FOoLs -Prussia was particeu. larly favoured in April Fools this year, for it was confi. dently reported in ?? the papers that the constitution which the king had so long promised ...

Reviews

... pea-iner nin- yh better conceived than described. FIFTEEN MILLION A~axL Fooas-l'rti sla was particu larly favoured in April Fools this year, for It w as con- deny I reported in all the papers that the csontitution which the king had so long promised ...

LITERATURE

... to this day, Why this should be so is not very .clear, inasmuch as the jailers and not the prince would have been the April fools on the occasion. A later version .p1 the same story whould appear to be the correct one. Here ihe prince and his wife, eosa ...