This play is part of Guignol's old repertoire and several handwritten copies exist. The one described here is a copy signed by Victor-Napoléon Vuillerme-Dunand, kept at the Musée des Arts de la Marionnette - Gadagne in Lyon. It is stamped with the visa of the sub-prefecture of Villefranche dated 24 December 1852, as well as a visa from the Rhône prefecture, partially erased but dated 187...

The play was acquired on 1 May 1927 from Joanny Durafour, a puppeteer based at 69 rue Cuvier in Lyon. Another handwritten copy, dated 1866, is kept at the French National Archives (Censure des petits théâtres): it was produced for the performances of Guignol Lyonnais given by Victor-Napoléon Vuillerme-Dunand and Laurent Josserand in a café on Rue Popincourt in Paris between 1866 and 1867.

Cassandre sends his servant Guignol to the notary to give him twenty thousand francs. Turlupiton secretly listens in on this conversation, then runs into Guignol and pretends to have a magic wand that can make anything disappear and reappear with the magic words: ‘Turlupiton one, Turlupiton two, Turlupiton three’. He offers to sell Guignol the wand for twenty thousand francs. Guignol accepts, but once he returns to his master Cassandre, he realises that Turlupiton has tricked him. He kills him with the wand and takes back the money.