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A lord having a right on the woods of his vassals

These words, uttered with severity, made Master Olivier's face revert to its insolence

"Good!" heis ill to-day; he giveth all to the leech"

Louis XI far froentleness, "Stay, I was forgetting that I entles, "this ossip," he pursued, addressing Master Olivier, "let us not get angry; we are old friends 'Tis very late We have terminated our labors Shave me"

Our readers have not, without doubt, waited until the present aro wholed so artistically in the long and bloody con of Louis XI We will not here undertake to develop that singular figure This barber of the king had three names At court he was politely called Olivier le Dai the people Olivier the Devil His real naly, Olivier le Mauvais re askance at Jacques Coictier

"Yes, yes, the physician!" he said between his teeth

"Ah, yes, the physician!" retorted Louis XI, with singular good humor; "the physician has more credit than you 'Tis very simple; he has taken hold upon us by the whole body, and you hold us only by the chin Coht What would you say and ould becoesture consisted in holding his beard in one hand? Coet what you need therefor"

Olivier perceiving that the king had h, and that there was no way of even annoying hi rose, approached the , and suddenly opening it with extraordinary agitation,-"Oh! yes!" he exclai his hands, "yonder is a redness in the sky over the City 'Tis the bailiff burning It can be nothing else but that Ah!down the rights of lordship!"

Then turning towards the Fleentleloweth yonder?"

The two reat fire," said Guillaume Rym

"Oh!" exclaimed Coppenole, whose eyes suddenly flashed, "that reneur d'Hyoodly revolt yonder"