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In 1782, an anonymous author wrote the following lines:
While April morn her Folly's throne exolts: ·
While Dobb coils Nell, ond laughs becouse she holts:
While Nell meets Tom, ond soys his toil is loose:
Then loughs in turn ond coil poor Thomos goose:
Let us, my Muse, thro' Folly's horvest ronge,
And gleon some Morol into Wisdom's gronge.
The subject of the author's efforts was the English funny and not-so-holy holiday called All Fools' Day: bette~ known in this country as Aprd Fools Day. Now that we have arrive~ at another April first and have g1ven and suffered our share of the jokes, foolish quests, and satires which al- ways befall us on th_is day _(whether we live in human soc1ety or 1n worm- dom), it may be int~r~sting to take a brief look at the ong1n of the day. Somewhere, far back in antiquity, oc- curred the precedent-setting gesture which we know today as April Fools' Day, a day when friendly banter, n:'is-
chievous tricks, and embarrass1ng jokes are more in evidence than any of the wealth stored in "Wisdom's grange."
When the Old Bookworm decided to do a little wormy research into the origin of this exalted day in order to go along with the underly- ing tone of the present issue, he dis- covered that the beginnings of our April Fools' Day are shrouded da_rkly by the discardings of our very fall1ble memories.
One authority has connected it with a very old Jewish festival. Some Jewish histories indicate that on the first day of April (the Jewish mon:h is called Nisan) Noah made the miS- take of sending a dove from the ark before the waters of the great flood had abated. To commemorate this error, which led to the final deliver- ance of Noah and the ark, it was the
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This gift comes to us from Mrs. Charles H. Almond, Jr., of Richmond formerly Miss Maude Tyree of Lynch- burg and Campbell County. In 1876, when she was only a year old, her father bought from the Scott family the tract of land patented by this land grant. The family lived at first i n t h e S c o t t h o m e b u t , w h e n Mr s . Almond was a girl of about twelve the home burned and her father built the white frame building known to us as the Infirmary.
When I asked Mrs. Almond to give us some background for her gift, her reply was most gracious. She wrote inpart: . .
"My interest in V. E. S. IS man1· fold. Not only does it stand on the ground hallowed to me by m?mories of my childhood, but as an _Eplsco~al­ ian I am deeply interested 1n the fme work you are doing there with the youth of today. During the years I
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men+ about sixteen by twenty 1nches in size covered with thirty-seven lines of fine writing in ink that is just a little browner than the parchment, such is the much-to-be-treasured gift which the School received a few days ago from one whose youthful years were spent upon these acres where now stands Virginia Episcopal School. This parchment is the original grant from King George II of England to William Stith of "one certain Tract or Parcel of Land contain ing one thou- sand, eighty hundred and fifty Acres lying and being in the County of
Albemarle on both sides of Judith 's Creek and joining in the Fluvan- na ..." It bears the date of Septem- ber tenth, 1755, and was signed by Robert Dinwiddie, "Lieutenant Gov- ernor and Commander in Chief of our said Colony and Dominion" of Vir- ginia. Despite the fact that the docu- ment is worn at the folds and faded at the right edge, it is still almost en- tirely legible. Only six words here and there have I failed thus far to decipher and these fortunately are not essential to a complete under- standing.
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