STORY THE FIFTY-SEVENTH — THE OBLIGING BROTHER.
By Monsieur De Villiers.
Of a damsel who married a shepherd, and how the marriage was arranged, and what a gentleman, the brother of the damsel, said.
As you are all ready to listen to me, and no one comes forward at the present moment to continue this glorious and edifying book of a Hundred Stories, I will relate an instance which happened formerly in Dauphiné, fit to be included in the number of the said novels.