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"Can't you just see Dad's face when he tastes his coffee with two spoonfuls of salt in it instead of sugar?" "No, Jerry," said his mother. "No. It wouldn't be at all funny to spoil your father's morning coffee. It would be tragic. Put the salt back, rinse out the sugarbowl, and refill it with sugar. And no more April-fooling with your father's breakfast."
There was a time, very many years ago, when the year began on the twenty-fifth of March. Then, as now, New Years' was a great feast of the Church; and as the First of April was what was termed the octave that is, the eighth day after the commencement of the feast it has been thought that the feast which terminated upon that day closed in April-fooling.
Oh, I can just imagine the top-lofty style in which she will inform Miss Angela that there must be some mistake." "And then, of course, they'll both find out that somebody's been April-fooling them." "Of course. But that isn't going to interfere with our fun. Miss Angela will be set down by that time just where I want her, when she discovers that her invitation is nothing but an April fool on her.
"I guess he was just April-fooling me," she suggested comfortingly, and the insistence of her soft gaze was such that Eloise looked up and met a smile so irresistible, that in spite of herself, her expression relaxed. The softened look was a relief to the child. "I've heard about you, of course, cousin Eloise," she said, "and I couldn't forget, because your name is so nice and and slippery.
The urchins in the street make a sport of calling to some passing beau to look to his coat-skirts; when he either finds them with a piece of paper pinned to them or not; in either of which cases he is saluted as an 'April-fool!" It has been said that "what compound is to simple addition, so is Scotch to English April-fooling."
To say nothing of your ears." Jerry swushed dirt off a step and changed the subject. "Have you fooled anybody yet this morning?" he asked. "Just Andy. I asked him if he knew that Bibsy had grown another head during the night, and he almost cried when he found I was April-fooling him. He said he had always wanted a two-headed cat.
However, the magistrate ordered that she be confined in prison until the First of April following, "comme un poisson d' Avril." In England, the custom of April-fooling is practiced very much as it is in the United States. "A knowing boy will despatch a younger brother to see a public statue descend from its pedestal at a particular appointed hour.
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