Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1872-04-18
M1LLERsBURG, HOLMES COUNTY, o. THURSDAY
''Dear me, should think he had been

fooled enough already" said kitmourn
fully.
"Oh! you don't know what YOUR,
talking about" laughed April. "Yor
queer mortals turn everything topsy.
turvy; you even fool people wrong END
FOREMOST
"What do you mean by that?' said
Harry Indignantly.
"Mean what / say, of course. You
fool people into being unhappy instead
OF happy. Look" she said suddenly
see that great black ugly stone falling
down on your
The children looked up, and there was
what seemed to be an inky cloud falling,
falling, falling. They held their trem-
bling hands above their two frightened
heads, and 10! the black clond. rolled
away, and their hands were filled with
sugar-plums.
"April fool. April fooll" cried the
girl, dancing and elapping her hands in
glee. ....r.
81 say, Miss April, do you always fool
people that way?" asked Harry, his
face actually beaming with delight.
''Oh. well, that's as one may deserve, "
said April. "But ah here comes Sew
en-times-one!'
Harry and Kit looked down the av-
enue, and there they saw the brightest,
merriest little girl in the world. Her
hair was all sunny and her eyes were
all shady. She came running up to
April, and throwing one arm around
her neck, kissed her, saying: "Well, 1
found the poor boy on his way home,
crying, and wondered what 1 should
do to fool him. Suddenly thought of
the good-luck penny, that you fooled
me with this morning, so put that
under a green leaf and moved the leaf
just a little bit, and sure enough he
lifted the leaf and there he found the
good-luck penny, and 1 cried "April
fool! April fool" and ran away down
to the great house OH the hill,' and,
dear me. if there wasn't my young Ia
dy, starting out with her head so high
up in the air that she couldn't see the
grass growing under her feet; but,
sunshine and shadowr didn't / turn
the sun over and treat her to an april
shOwer.' and then crying April fooln
ran away down to the squire's house,
and there was my lady, bundled up in
her waterproof, with cotton umbrella
under her arm, grumbling about the
the weather. "Oh-ho" said I, $50 it's
sunlight you want, is it?" said 1, and
followed her until she was well started
on her journey, and over rolled the
sun again, and he beamed smilingly |
upon her waterproof and umbrella,
while ran down the road to the village,
shouting, "April fool April fool April |
foolr When I got to the village saw
the blacksmith's two little girls sitting
together on the doorstep crying.
"Ah.' said one. sour papa is not rich /;
we can not go to the picnic with the
other children
"Oh-ho, so that's it, is it. said L,
and away went to the squire's daugh-
ter, and 1 whispered in her ear, "Ask
the blackslnith's two little girls; give
'em surprise"
''Mamma,' said she, her sweet face all
81 have an idea; we will ask
the two little Millers; how they ,oul en-
joy it.''
$50 she put on her hat and started
for their house. But ran on before,
and sat down on the doorstep between
them, and whispered, first to one and
then to the other: mo, my dear, you
can't go, you can't go. No, my dear,
no, you can't. no, my dearn' And
then, when the squire's daughter came
along and Invited them, said "April
fool! April fool, April fool" and ran
home here; and now give me kiss.
Good! Give me anotherp'
''And now," said April, chow, in the
light of the sun, do you two little
expect to get home,
should like to know?"
"Oh. dear, don't know; it's such a
ong distance, and we don't know the
way" said Kit, beginning to look about
Ter and cry.
Certainly you DON'T" said April;
'and as it's getting very dark indeed,
we not the slightest doubt that you'll
10Th get lost in the woods; but you'd
,etter be running right along, so as not
o lose any more time than need be-"
So Harry and Kit started to run down
he long avenue, when they each felt a
,iss on the back of their necks, and then
S quick as fash, they both stood on
he place that they had started from in
he morning; and all they heard was
echo in the woods, calling,
April fool. April fool. April fool ~
fearM and Home.