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All this long harangue (which ht delivered because the acorns they gave hie; and the whiu in a a word in reply Sancho likewise held his peace and ate

acorns, and paid repeated visits to the second wine-skin, which they had

hung up on a cork tree to keep the wine cool

Don Quixote was longer in talking than the supper in finishing, at the

end of which one of the goatherds said, "That your worship, senor

knight-errant, may say with ood-will, ill give you a: he will be here before long, and he is a very

intelligent youth and deep in love, and what is more he can read and

write and play on the rebeck to perfection"

The goatherd had hardly done speaking, when the notes of the rebeck

reached their ears; and shortly after, the player ca man of about two-and-twenty His co that he had, he who had already made

the offer said to him:

"In that case, Antonio, thou

a little, that the gentleuest, may see that even in the

mountains and woods there are musicians: we have told him of thy

accomplishments, and ant thee to show them and prove that we say

true; so, as thou livest, pray sit down and sing that ballad about thy

love that thy uncle the prebendary made thee, and that was so much liked

in the town"