The farmer's boy . - seemed a fiower to him, it was so(|ueer. S])ring had three days with an in(li\i(lualit_\- which madethem stand out among the rest. Earliest of ihesi cameA])ril Fools Day. The only idea the boy had about itwas that the more things he could make the rest of theworld belic-\e on llial (la\ which wiTe not so, tlie l) of llu tricks were not \ery clever or comnKndable,and the bo\- himself filt that he was sonutinn-s a|)i)nxiclving uncomforlabh close to hing. Ihv common form offooling was to get a ])erson to look at something that wasnot in ^ight. See that crow out lluT
The farmer's boy . - seemed a fiower to him, it was so(|ueer. S])ring had three days with an in(li\i(lualit_\- which madethem stand out among the rest. Earliest of ihesi cameA])ril Fools Day. The only idea the boy had about itwas that the more things he could make the rest of theworld belic-\e on llial (la\ which wiTe not so, tlie l) of llu tricks were not \ery clever or comnKndable,and the bo\- himself filt that he was sonutinn-s a|)i)nxiclving uncomforlabh close to hing. Ihv common form offooling was to get a ])erson to look at something that wasnot in ^ight. See that crow out lluTe! savs the bo\ to his fatlur. J >]->nni:; 6i. It«r«-«»-» •* - ,«i»*r Car pel bialini; WluTc? asks his fatlu-r, wluii In- l()()k> out. A|)ril fool I shouts thr hoy, and his pkasurc owrthf shck way lu- fooKd iii> pa, histid a hah hour ormore- until lu (listoNi-n-d that lu- had hern walkini^ aroundfor he didnt know how lonjj; with a slip t)f ])a| on his 62 The Farmers Boy back his sister had pinned there; and what he read onit when he got it off was April fool! He did not feelso happy then, but he saved the paper to i)in on some oneelse. All da} his Ijrain was full of schemes to get peoplelooking at the imaginary oljjects to which he callerl tlieirattention, and at the same time he uas full of suspicionshimself, and you had to be very sharp and sudden to foolhim. When night came he rejoiced in the fact that hehad got one or two fools off on every member of thefamily, and there is no knowing what a nuisance he hadmade of liimself among the rest of his friends. It ga\ehim a grand good appetite, and lie was inclined
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