"Pierrot" is a short story by French writer Guy de Maupassant.

A year later, in 1883, it appeared in the short story collection Contes de la bécasse.

[2] Ms. Lefevre, a rich, miserly widow has a dozen onions stolen from her garden.

She refuses to pay eight francs for the animal and decides to throw Pierrot into a Denehole, which is a well in which all dogs from the area end up.

To appease her guilty conscience, she goes every day beside the hole to throw Pierrot some bread.