Portal:April Fools' Day

Works

 * Chapter 8 of Sketch of Connecticut, Forty Years Since, 1824 by Lydia Sigourney
 * "He'll be 19 year old, come next April-fool-day; and I meant to a done well by Amariah, when he got to be of age, and give him a decent settin' out, and then hired him by the month, if so be that he was agreeable to 't, and pay him the money"
 * Chapter 16 of The Land of Midian, 1879 by Richard Francis Burton
 * "April Fools’ day was another that deserved to be marked with a white stone."
 * A Poor Man's Tale of a Patent by Charles Dickens
 * "I was married on All Fools' Day. Let them laugh that will. I won a good wife that day, and it was as sensible a day to me as ever I had."
 * A Christmas Garland, 1912 by Max Beerbohm
 * "The time will come when we shall dance round the Maypole every morning before breakfast--a meal at which hot-cross buns will be a standing dish--and shall make April fools of one another every day before noon. The profound significance of All Fool's Day--the glorious lesson that we are all fools--is too apt at present to be lost."
 * Chapter 2 of Ambulance 464, 1918 by Julien H. Bryan "Midnight-In the abri at Post Two"