Show SHROVE TUESDAY JOKES idair ot 1 beel oe el by two I 1 klux in all countries where lent la kept except in where ann V dues day Is not observed tuesday the last day before the beginning of the penitential season bag been ghen over to aporta and practical jokes in both and scotland in which latter place the day la know i as I 1 listens een it was in time pnat A great holiday for the apprentice and working classes generally A grew some jole was played 1 y loula 1 I one tuesday alim at night he ordered his guards to rouse the sleeping villagers mar and arli i them to the castle I 1 rom almost ei cry tree in the surrounding wood it Is said a dead body dangled and to tho maw ft his fiddlers fidd lers louis the U take a gibbeted corane for partner and dance before it till morning those ho bad li sweethearts or relatives among the dead etere forced to have thili for partners later charles IX enjoyed a practical joke at shrovetide that was les grim in its character giving ten cf the roost pickpockets pick pockets in I 1 aris full leave to steal tiny could without being found out at the earn val ball louis himself enjoyed dexterity and the dismay of thoo who misled their jewels clr dies and other valuables |