The cheerful blackguard

By
ROGER POCOCK
Author of A MAN IN THE OPEN, CAPTAINS OF ADVENTURE, ETC
Good people, since God alone, can make you wise and kind, the jester's province is merely to amuse you
INDIANAPOLIS THE BOBBS-MERRILL COMPANY PUBLISHERS
COPYRIGHT 1915 THE BOBBS-MERRILL COMPANY
PRESS OF BRAUNWORTH & CO. BOOKBINDERS AND PRINTERS BROOKLYN, N. Y.
CONTENTS
CHAPTER

THE CHEERFUL BLACKGUARD
I, José de la Mancha y O'Brien, was born on the ninth day of November, 1865, in Spain, of an Irish mother and a Spanish sire. Ten years later my parents entered the service of God, my father from a battle-field, my mother living in a convent.