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Updated: June 4, 2025
"Go on," said the wife, "go on, it's the lid shaking." "No, my dear, it's the bolt." And without any other opposition the chest slid gently down the stairs. "Ho there, carrier!" said the jeweller, and Chiquon came whistling his mules, and the good apprentices lifted the litigious chest into the cart. "Hi, hi!" said the advocate. "Master, the chest is speaking," said an apprentice.
So Chiquon gained with hasty feet the Rue de la Calandre, where the jeweller should be supping with his companion, and after having knocked at the door, replied to question put to him through the little grill, that he was a messenger on state secrets, and was admitted to the draper's house.
"Well, there is a paradise for the good; is it not necessary to have a hell for the wicked?" "Yes, Mr. Canon; but the devil's of no use. If you had here a wicked man who turned everything upside down; would you not kick him out of doors?" "Yes, Chiquon."
He is dead, thought Chiquon. At this moment the door of the room opened, and he still saw the canon, who, his nose frozen, came back from church. "Ho, ho!" said Chiquon, "my dear Uncle, are you out of your senses?
Then Chiquon continued to proceed along the quay, as far as the Rue-du-port, St. Laudry, near the cloisters of Notre Dame. There he noticed a house, recognised the door, and knocked loudly. "Open," said he, "open by order of the king." Hearing this an old man who was no other than the famous Lombard, Versoris, ran to the door. "What is it?" said he.
Thereupon, hearing this, Chiquon determined to do well by his uncle, and puzzled his understanding to appear better; but as he had a behind shaped like a pair of pumpkins, was broad shouldered, large limbed, and far from sharp, he more resembled old Silenus than a gentle Zephyr.
"I am sent by the provost to warn you to keep good watch tonight," replied Chiquon, "as for his own part he will keep his archers ready. The hunchback who has robbed you has come back again. Keep under arms, for he is quite capable of easing you of the rest."
"There, there!" replied Chiquon, "I am one of your friends and come to warn you that as many times as you have conversed with the draper's wife here, as often has your own wife been served the same way by the advocate Pille-grue, and if you will come back to your forge, you will find a good fire there.
"If you will make a will, to whom will you leave the house? "To Chiquon." "And the quit rent of the Rue St. Denys?" "To Chiquon." "And the fief of Ville Parisis?" "To Chiquon." "But," said the captain, with his big voice, "everything then will be Chiquon's."
"If you will make a will, to whom will you leave the house? "To Chiquon." "And the quit rent of the Rue St. Denys?" "To Chiquon." "And the fief of Ville Parisis?" "To Chiquon." "But," said the captain, with his big voice, "everything then will be Chiquon's."
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