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Hunt the Gowk Day
is on
1 Aprile
ilka
year
in mony
kintras
. On this day,
practical jokes
baurs is played on freends an faimily. The baurs is duin for tae gie thaim a reidie.
In
Scotland
the tradeetional
pantomime
is tae speir at a body tae deleever a sealt message seekin help o some sort. In fact, the message reads "Dinna lauch, dinna smile. Hunt the gowk anither mile". The recipient, upo readin it, will expone he can anely help if he first contacts anither sowel, an sends the veectim tae this body wi a sel an same message, wi the same affcome. Scotland haes 2 hail days for pliskies, 1st Aprile an 2nt Aprile. (See
Preen-tail Day
.)