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Romance fulfilled by a practical joke. A young boy Ted Barton decides to fool his sister on April 1 with a false proposal but finds it hard to tell her the truth when he sees she cares for the putative author. She writes an acceptance before he has time to tell him so the boy goes to confess to the rising young journalist he has impersonated. Fortunately the journalist has long loved Nan Barton and not proposed because he feared he was too poor to win her. The story ends happily. Humorous authorial presence, eg: 'For the first time in his life it occurred to him that boys were really a superfluous element in creation.' (PB)
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