THE FORTY-FIVE GUARDSMEN (Illustrated)

The acquaintance so pleasantly begun in the earlier story, with 'Chicot the Jester', is here renewed with even greater delight. Disguised as Maitre Robert Briquet, to escape the vengeance of the Duc de Mayenne, he is no less original and amusing than in his proper person, — no less active in his care for the interests of the somewhat unappreciative and ungrateful master, to whom his faithful attachment never varies.

The whole episode of the jester's mission to the Court of Navarre — his haza...