TO
PHILIP SCHUYLER

IN RECOGNITION OF
A CONSTANT FRIENDSHIP

CONTENTS

[I]

Of how François the foundling was cared for by the good fathers of the Benedictine Asylum for Orphans, and of what manner of lad he was

[II]

In which François becomes a choir-boy, and serves two masters, to the impairment of his moral sense

[III]

Of the misfortunes caused by loss of a voice, and of how a cat and a damsel got François into trouble—whereupon, preferring the world to a monastery, he ran away from the choristers of Notre Dame

[IV]