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He was ossa in 1595 in

honour of the canonisation of St Jacinto, when his composition won the

first prize, three silver spoons The year before this he had been

appointed a collector of revenues for the kingdom of Granada In order to

remit the money he had collected more conveniently to the treasury, he

entrusted it to a merchant, who failed and absconded; and as the

bankrupt's assets were insufficient to cover the whole, he was sent to

prison at Seville in Septeainst hi security for it he was

released at the end of the year

It was as he journeyed fro's taxes,

that he noted down those bits of inn and wayside life and character that

abound in the pages of "Don Quixote:" the Benedictine monks with

spectacles and sunshades, mounted on their tall e; the barber with his basin on his

head, on his way to bleed a patient; the recruit with his breeches in his

bundle, traathered in the

venta gateway listening to "Felixarthian touches that he so well kne to bring in, the

ox-tail hanging up with the landlord's comb stuck in it, the wine-skins