Nebraska advertiser., 1882-04-20
The Best Kind Of FOOling.

Jack and Kitty sat by the fire one
windy March evening, popping corn.oV
"Tell you what, Kitty said Jack.
l"rve thought of boss April-fool joke
to play on that new boy across the road.
He's so honest and solemn, you can fool
him just as easy" .'
I "What is ii Pn
"Oh,.Pl take chip. and write on it
l'April-Fool, and wrap il in a paper,
then I'll put another paper on the out
| side of that, and so on, lots and lots of
papers till l have a big bundle. I'll
write on the outside, Henry johnson,
from, a friend and the last thing before
| A go to bed the night before April-Fool's
day I'll run over and hang il on their
door-knob.
L. Won't some of them. see you P"h.tv
No danger. They always 90 to bed
early over there 4 suppose because his
mother is too poor to sit up and burn
out wood and lights. But they get up
early in the morning He IL go out to
the pump for some water, and find the
bundle, and he'll think he S got some
thing nice. Won't he be well fooled
when he gets it all undone and finds
nothing but chipipn sac SSstthAH
Hes got q sister not quite as big as
lam, remarked Kitty, not seeming 10
enter into the sport as heartily as Jack
did bk,...t9 ID i0ryr,sy p. rFgsF
Come here" children" =" called their
mother from the sitting-room; "and
III suggest an improvement on Jack S
plan. / dare say Mrs. johnson would
remember that it was thei first of April,
and tell Henrynot to. expect tofind any
thing in his bundle. SO surer way
to fool him would be to put something
inside. There are the rubber-boots you
had last year, you know, Jack, and
they were so small you only wore them
a trifle. You might do them up for Hem
,ry, and they would be very nice for him
10 wear in this spring mud.
Mother" said Kitty, "there are
| my copper-toed boots that / outgrew
last year Couldn't Ilput them in for the
little grip"
V' Certainly, dear. uAlJGgRWun
Not many evenings after, you might
have seen Jack and Kitty very busy in
the kitchen. The rubber-boots and cop
per-toed ones We're tied up in snug
package, and over that was wrapped nc
end of papers, till the bundle was al
most rs large as Kitty herself. Jack
wrote the address, and ran over with il
at bedtime, as he proposed. The Wild
y ow Johnson s light had been out for an
hour, for the children had kept watcha
She found the bundle when she first
got up the next morning, and carried il
into the children. You mustremem,
Der it is the first of April" she said
with a smile, land You mustn't expect
to find much in this, if it is heavy.ll 50
"Oh yes, it Is April day, ISM
IlitP'' laughed Henry, "WelL they cant
, fool us now, can they, SisP But wei
undo the papers. They'll come handy
for good many things, and we shal
find a stone or a brick at,the elastiend2
! / So the children hadSl Tots of sport nm
, Wrapping the papers, cand they wer'
| most thoroughly fooled when at last TIN
very boots they had so much needed
: came to view. s., u,ia- tagi5elrs satusus
. lid like to be fooled this way ever.
1 year, neried Henry, storrning about II
: his new boots.
/. 80 would II chimed in his littl
. sister, looking happily down at the cop
o per-toes. Yoath's Companion. : .e'7sss
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