sleep, too. A dream arrives. Pierrot, now a sleepwalker, gets up, seizes the carafe in which his hallucinated gaze sees some excellent Tokay, and drinks bumper after bumper. A little tipsy, he picks up the doll, believing it to be his daughter; he rocks it to put it back to sleep, smooths its little face and hair, and, growing annoyed over his exertions in undressing it for bed, he throws it on the floor. Stupefaction! He thinks he has killed his child. He runs to the toy that still lies inert and, seized by a violent despair, tries to bring it back to life. In vain. Pierrot then tries to kill himself too. He hesitates over various means of death, poison, a noose, etc. He stabs himself with a saber; the blade goes in and out his sleeve. Then he gets a gun, unhooks the mirror from the wall, sets it against the carafe, stands in a good position to see himself, his image appearing in the mirror. The shot rings out and Pierrot falls, thinking himself dead. When he comes to, he flees the theater of his crime, boards a boat, is taken with seasickness, shipwrecks in the middle of the most terrifying storm, swims to safety and collapses, exhausted, on a desert island. Again he falls asleep. But this time his awakening will be better. The nightmare has disappeared; it lingers only as a light headache that the first smile of his little girl will dissipate when Pierrot, fully recovered to himself, runs to give her the newly found doll. See also Mime artist Pantomime Notes References Champfleury (Jules-François-Félix Husson, known as Fleury, known as) (1859). Souvenirs des Funambules. Paris: Lévy Frères. Hugounet, Paul (1889). Mimes et Pierrots: notes et documents inédits pour servir à l'histoire de la pantomime. Paris: Fischbacher. J.M. (1861). Biographie et portrait de M. Paul Legrand, premier mime des Folies-Nouvelles et du Théâtre Déjazet. Bordeaux: Péchade Fils Frères. Larcher, Félix and Eugène, eds. (1887). Pantomimes de Paul Legrand. Paris: Librairie Théàtrale. Lecomte, L.-Henry (1909). Histoire des théâtres de Paris: Les Folies-Nouvelles, 1854–1859, 1871–1872, 1880. Paris: Daragon. Margueritte, Paul (1925). Le Printemps tourmenté. Paris: Flammarion. Rémy, Tristan (1954). Jean-Gaspard Deburau. Paris: L'Arche. Séverin (Séverin Cafferra, known as) (1929). L'Homme Blanc: souvenirs d'un Pierrot. Introduction et notes par Gustave Fréjaville. Paris: Plon. Block quotations from this book are protected by copyright (copyright © 1985 by Princeton