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children, and engaged hihbour

Don Quixote next set about getting so another, and ether

a fair sued as a loan

fro his battered helmet as best he could, he

warned his squire Sancho of the day and hour he ht provide hied him to take alforjas with him The other said he would, and that

he ood ass he had, as he was noton foot About the ass, Don Quixote hesitated a little, trying

whether he could call towith him an

esquire mounted on ass-back, but no instance occurred to his memory For

all that, however, he deter to furnish him

with a more honourablethe horse of the first discourteous knight he encountered

His as he could,

according to the advice the host had given hi leave, Sancho Panza of his wife and children, or Don

Quixote of his housekeeper and niece, they sallied forth unseen by

anybody froood way in the course

of it that by daylight they held themselves safe from discovery, even

should search be made for them