Pierrot and Harlequin are rivals, both being in love with the same dainty maiden, of whom we catch a glimpse in the first picture as she sits in her home busily stitching away on a part of some fine lady&apos;s gown, the gown itself ad...

Pierrot, the Fuddler

Pierrot and Harlequin are rivals, both being in love with the same dainty maiden, of whom we catch a glimpse in the first picture as she sits in her home busily stitching away on a part of some fine lady's gown, the gown itself adorning a wooden figure which stands beside the little dressmaker. Pierrot soon appears and. seeing his adored one, begins at once to make serious love to her, but the latter has no time for such nonsense and casts him from her and goes back to her work with a pout on her pretty mouth. Pierrot, miserable and dejected, starts down the street, but has not gone far before he meets his rival. Harlequin, who invites him to partake of a little refreshment. The disappointed lover feels that he is in need of cheering, so accepts. We soon see, however, why the wily Harlequin was so anxious to entertain his rival, for before many minutes have elapsed Pierrot seems not quite himself, having taken a little too much of the refreshing beverage ordered by Harlequin. On leaving the café we see Pierrot zigzagging down the street, Harlequin having left him to get home the best way he could and only hoping that the pretty dressmaker, with whom they are both in love, would see him in his woeful condition and become disgusted with her admirer. Notwithstanding the confusion in his brain, Pierrot still thinks of his sweetheart and determines to see her and soon gains her home, where she has fallen asleep over her work. When Pierrot makes his appearance she awakens with a start and seeing that he is not himself becomes terrified and flees. Poor Pierrot drops on the chair she has vacated and he also falls asleep and dreams that he is pleading with his dear one, but she repulses him, so, becoming enraged, the mild little clown draws a dagger and stabs the girl (the spectator understands, however, that in his nightmare he has risen and mistaking the dressmaker's wooden model for his sweetheart has thrust the knife into, her senseless body, throwing it down with a crash). Poor Pierrot, still dreaming, is terrified to think he is actually a murderer, and a vision of the High Court, with the three somber judges pronouncing the death sentence on him looms up before his distorted brain. But when the gallows makes its appearance this is too much for the terrified clown, who wakes with a scream that brings in the frightened little dressmaker in a hurry who, seeing her adorer suffering, rushes over to him. When Pierrot sees her he thinks naturally that it is her ghost and trembles all over with horror and fear. She reassures him, however, and they are soon clasped in each other's arms while Pierrot recounts his terrible dream.

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