Show why he sought pardon roquelaure Hoque laure thy the deformed jester of louis XIV contrived to get out of many a scrape by his ready wit one day tie he vent to tho the king to ask hla his pardon for having struck off the helmet of one ona of his sentinels who had failed to give him tho the military salute louis who knew his man wondered that roquelaure should crave hla his pardon for so io venial an offense and said to him this Is ia a serious mat ter but I 1 will pardon you this time it t afterwards atter warda turned out that the soldiers head was in the helmet and tell fell with it to the ground |