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"Who doubts that?" said the niece; "but, uncle, who mixes you up in these

quarrels? Would it not be better to re the world looking for better bread than ever cao for wool and come back shorn?"

"Oh, niece of mine," replied Don Quixote, "how : ere they shear me I shall have plucked away and stripped

off the beards of all who dare to touch only the tip of a hair ofto er was kindling

In short, then, he re any signs of a desire to take up with his for this tiossips, the

curate and the barber, on the point he hts-errant

hat the world stood most in need of, and that in hiht-errantry The curate soreed with him, for if he had not observed

this precaution he would have been unable to bring him to reason

Meanwhile Don Quixote worked upon a farhbour of his, an

honest iven to him who is poor), but

with very little wit in his pate In a word, he so talked him over, and

with such persuasions and promises, that the poor clown made up his mind

to sally forth with his, told hiladly,

because any ht win an island in

the twinkling of an eye and leave hiovernor of it On these and the

like promises Sancho Panza (for so the labourer was called) left wife and