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Cable April Fool's Joke Source
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Wed, 29 Apr 2020 16:23:53 +0000
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I found this excellent online source lately, a textual edition of George Washington Cable’s 1884 April Fool’s joke on Mark Twain. A good introduction, but the main delight is the reprinting of all the known hoax letters:

http://scholarlyediting.org/2017/editions/aprilfools/intro.html

John Bird

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