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Show WOLFRANC WAS an actor in the same troupe with Gobert - Gobert who always took the part of Napoleon I. and drew crowded circuses. Unhappily, Gobert was subject to annoying lapses of memory, and so to reduce to a minimum the possibilities of a break-down, they always wrote out the letters which were to be handed to him, the bulletins he was to issue to his army, &c. Wolfranc, aware of this peculiarity of his fellow-actor, had planned to put up a job on him, and one night when he came on as an Austrian General charged to bear a letter to Bonaparte, he presented the emperor with a blank sheet of paper. Gobert instantly perceived the trick, and handing the letter back to Wolfranc, said with dignity. "I never receive a communication that a manly foe need not know all about; read it yourself to these gentlemen, General." Il l'eu le? (he had him there).-French Paper. |
