Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 162, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1911 — When Rabelais Died. [ARTICLE]

When Rabelais Died.

From the stories told of Rabelais* he fiaust have been In life the same strange, wise, and mirthful Imp, which he appears In his writings. He seems even to have looked death in the face with a grin of his own. As his friends were weeping round bls’"bed, he exclaimed, “Ain If I were to die ten times over, I should never make you cry half so much as I have made you laugh.” As be was dying, a page entered from the Cardinal Du Bellay, to inquire after his health. The old humorist muttered in reply: “Tell my lord in what circumstance you found me; I am just going to leap Into the dark. He is up In a cock loft; bid him stay where he is. As for thee, thoullt always be a fool. Let down the curtain; the farce Is done.” Immediately after his death, his relations seised upon a sealed paper, purporting to be his last will and testament, which on being opened, was found to contain three pithy articles, “I owe much; I have nothing; I leave the rest to the poof.”—Whipple: The Ludicrous Side of Life, In "Literature and Life.”