[originaltext] The first day of April ranks among the most joyous days in th

The first day of April ranks among the most joyous days in the juvenile calendar.
    "It is a day when you hoax friends of yours with jokes like Sending them to the shop for some pigeon’s milk, or telling them to dig a hole because a dog has died; when they came back and ask where is the dead dog you say ’April fool’ and laugh at them. There are some when you just say ’Your shoe lace is undone’ or ’Your belt is hanging’ or ’Go and fetch that plate off the table, and of course their shoe lace is tied up right, and their belt is not hanging, and there is no plate on the table, so you say ’Ever been bad, April fool’."
    And parents, of course, are not exempt. "We have a lively time," says an 11-year-old Swansea girl, "as there are so many jokes to play such as sewing up the bottom of Daddy’s trousers." And a 9-year-old Birmingham boy writes:
    "Last year I fooled father by gluing a penny to the floor and saying ’Dad, you’ve dropped a penny on the floor.’ He couldn’t get it off the ground because it was stuck firm, then I shouted ’Yah, April fool’. "