* To descend from these altitudes, and not to protract our Fools' Banquet beyond its appropriate day,for I fear the second of April is not many hours distantin sober verity I will confess a truth to thee, reader.

ALL FOOLS' DAY.

ALL FOOLS' DAY, 48, 367.

It is children's awe and fools' amazement, a worm in conscience and a curse to wickedness.

But it is precisely that it should be understood how inextricably the will to live is bound up with, and is really one and the same as, this unspeakable misery, that is the world's aim and purpose; and it is an aim and purpose which the appearance of Napoleon did much to assist. Not to be an unmeaning fools' paradise but a tragedy, in which the will to live understands itself and yieldsthat is the object for which the world exists.

To see men buy smoke for wares, castles built with fools' heads, men like apes follow the fashions in tires, gestures, actions: if the king laugh, all laugh; "Rides?

Neither is it sufficient to keep them blind, and in Cimmerian darkness, but withal, as a schoolmaster doth by his boys, to make them follow their books, sometimes by good hope, promises and encouragements, but most of all by fear, strict discipline, severity, threats and punishment, do they collogue and soothe up their silly auditors, and so bring them into a fools' paradise.

The monk he vanished where he stood; King William sterte up wroth and wood; Quod he, 'Fools' wits will jump together; The Hampshire ale and the thunder weather Have turned the brains for us both, I think;

matter enough To spoil a waggon-load of ash-staves on, And break a dozen fools' backs across their cantlets.

If they venture into it, I shall have to strip them of their pretty conceits and fools' gear.

It's just some silly fools 'aving a game with me, and I'm not going to encourage 'em.

" I suppose that couple o' fools 'ud 'ave stood there talking about me all night if I'd ha' let 'em, but I had about enough of it.

Had Pupasse possessed as many heads as the hydra, she could have "coiffe'd" them all with fools' caps during one morning's recitations.

There was nothing but fools' caps to be gained by prevaricating, and there was frequently nothing less gained by confession.

But the first offering of the bag was invariably to the stern dispenser of fools' caps and the unnamed humiliation of the reversed skirt: Madame Joubert.

There was a little scene in the parlor: Pupasse, all dressed in black, with her bag of primary books in her hand, ready and eager to get back to her classes and fools' caps; madame, hesitating between her interests and her fear of ridicule; Madame Joubert, between her loyalty to school and her conscience.

That school was her home; Madame JoubertGod help her!her mother; madame, her divinity; fools' caps and turned-up skirts, her life.

Could the inanimate past testify, what a fluttering of fools' caps in that parlor"Daily Bees," and "Weekly Couriers," by the year-full!

'For anything I see foreigners are fools' ('Old' Meynell), iv.

Yes, when he is great; but his Satan is often a thing to be thrown out of the way among the rods and fools' caps of the nursery .

On leaving the council he met his court-fool Triboulet, whom he found writing in his tablets, called Fools' Diary, the name of Charles V., "A bigger fool than I," said he, "if he comes passing through France."

His last days were for him envenomed Through senseless fools' contempt aggrieved, He died revenge a'thirst, accusing That every hope his heart deceived!

That's the way I uset to amuse the twins when they needed killin'; of course we'll look like a pair of fools' "'Yes!' hollers Hadds.

A first quick glance at it filled me with despair, because I was luxuriating in that Fools' Paradise produced by the illusion that one is all paid up.

In the village square is a picturesque house with the initials R.S. (Robert Sherborne, the last prior) between two figures with fools' caps.