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Good Stories Reprinted from the Ladies' Home Journal of Philadelphia

Willie’s April Fool on Mamma!

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Little Willie had a very pretty governess, and on April first he rather startled his mother by rushing in to her and saying:

“Mamma, there’s a strange man upstairs who has just put his arm around Miss Wilson’s waist, and kissed her several times——”

“What?” said the mother, as she jumped up to pull the bell for the butler.

“April fool, Mamma!” said Willie, in great glee. “It wasn’t a strange man at all. It was Papa!”

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