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One of the remedies which the curate and the barber immediately applied

to their friend's disorder was to wall up and plaster the rooot up he should not find theht cease), and they ician had carried them off, room and all; and this was done with all

despatch Two days later Don Quixote got up, and the first thing he did

was to go and look at his books, and not finding the room where he had

left it, he wandered fro for it He came to the

place where the door used to be, and tried it with his hands, and turned

and twisted his eyes in every direction without saying a word; but after

a good while he asked his housekeeper whereabouts was the room that held

his books

The housekeeper, who had been already well instructed in what she was to

answer, said, "What roo for? There are neither room nor books in this house now, for the

devil himself has carried all away"

"It was not the devil," said the niece, "but a ht after the day your worship left this, and dis

from a serpent that he rode he entered the room, and what he did there I

know not, but after a little while he h the roof,