An April Fool
“Well, I’m a bigger fool, my friends, than I had ever thought on;
I’ve gone an’ married me a wife, and find she’s stuffed with cotton!”
Peter Newell from Harper’s Round Table, vol. XVI, no. 805, 2 April 1895, 384.
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