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OF THE DIVERTING AND IMPORTANT SCRUTINY WHICH THE CURATE AND THE BARBER

MADE IN THE LIBRARY OF OUR INGENIOUS GENTLEMAN

He was still sleeping; so the curate asked the niece for the keys of the

room where the books, the authors of all the ave them They all went in, the housekeeper with the books very well bound, and some

other small ones The moment the housekeeper saw them she turned about

and ran out of the room, and came back immediately with a saucer of holy

water and a sprinkler, saying, "Here, your worship, senor licentiate,

sprinkle this rooician of the e for our design of banishing them

from the world"

The sih, and he

directed the barber to give him the books one by one to see what they

were about, as therethem that did not

deserve the penalty of fire

"No," said the niece, "there is no reason for showing mercy to any of

the them out of

theinto the court and make a pile of them and set fire to them;