Too late for fooling at Skipton

At Skipton in Craven the young people had a set answer for anyone who tried to play a trick a day late. A boy who made someone a May gosling on the second of May was told that May Day was past and gone, and he was the gosling, not the other. A correspondent told Hone that the same rhyme, with the words changed to fit, was said on the second of April to anyone still trying to make April fools. The practice was very common around 1815 but dying out by 1827.