"You said you were a fool on a foolish errand."

To the Editor: Trying to calculate the financial cost of "The "Gates" project is a foolish errand.

And if this - this foolish errand of theirs -was it, then at least they had made the gesture.

In 1539, Flemish poet Eduard de Dene wrote of a nobleman who sent his servants on foolish errands on April 1.

They came and went on their foolish errands; we endured; and the band was really ours - was mine.

But it is not a foolish errand, nor an idle one," replied the Scarecrow; "it is important.

Finally he said, "You do not look like the kind of girl who would come here on a foolish errand.

If you insist on risking your life on foolish errands, then you must give me a child.

From your own account of the matter we may justly draw these two conclusions: 1st, That you serve a monster; and 2d, That never was a messenger sent on a more foolish errand than yourself.

And should the good bishop not be there, their journey would have been a foolish errand at the best.