

The Four Beggards
Once upon a time there were four rascals with predestined names. They called themselves Sans-Souci, Sans-le-Sou, Clean-to-Nothing, and Hungry. They lived according to their desires sleeping most of the time and only awakening to obtain by begging the little that was necessary for them to survive. Eating little, not washing, they were not beautiful to see and inspired no confidence to whom had the misfortune to cross them. Now one day a storm of unheard-of violence broke out a