THE CHEERFUL
BLACKGUARD

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

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