phoenixiana

Updated: May 28, 2025

The disappointment was not very bitter, for The Boy knew that something else was coming; and he realized that it was the First of April and that he had been April-fooled! The something else, he remembers, was that most amusing of all amusing books, Phoenixiana, then just published, and over it he forgot his toothache, but not his maple sugar.

Laurence Hutton - A Boy I Knew and Four Dogs