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"Nay, gossip," said the barber, "for this that I have here is the famous

'Don Belianis'"

"Well," said the curate, "that and the second, third, and fourth parts

all stand in need of a little rhubarb to purge their excess of bile, and

they must be cleared of all that stuff about the Castle of Fareater affectations, to which end let the as they mend, so shall mercy or justice be ossip, do you keep them in your house and

let no one read the to tire hi more books of chivalry, he told the housekeeper to take all the

big ones and throw them into the yard It was not said to one dull or

deaf, but to one who enjoyed burning the the broadest

and finest web that could be; and seizing about eight at a ti so ether she let one fall at the feet of the barber,

who took it up, curious to knohose it was, and found it said, "History

of the Faht, Tirante el Blanco"

"God bless me!" said the curate with a shout, "'Tirante el Blanco' here!

Hand it over, gossip, for in it I reckon I have found a treasury of

enjoyment and a mine of recreation Here is Don Kyrieleison of Montalvan,

a valiant knight, and his brother Thoht