fools'-day

Updated: May 10, 2025

Courtship, nest-building, family cares nothing disturbs a robin's appetite, and it was, indeed, a sorry fools'-day for myriads of angle-worms that ventured out. Managing a country place is like sailing a ship: one's labors are, or should be, much modified by the weather.

Edward Payson Roe - Nature's Serial Story