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"Go on with thy story, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "and leave the choice

of our road to e of Estreoat-shepherd--that is to say, one who tended goats--which shepherd

or goatherd, as oes, was called Lope Ruiz, and this Lope Ruiz

was in love with a shepherdess called Torralva, which shepherdess called

Torralva was the daughter of a rich grazier, and this rich grazier-"

"If that is the way thou tellest thy tale, Sancho," said Don Quixote,

"repeating twice all thou hast to say, thou wilt not have done these two

days; go straight on with it, and tell it like a reasonable "

"Tales are always told inthis,"

answered Sancho, "and I cannot tell it in any other, nor is it right of

your worship to ask me to make new customs"

"Tell it as thou wilt," replied Don Quixote; "and as fate will have it

that I cannot help listening to thee, go on"

"And so, lord of my soul," continued Sancho, as I have said, this

shepherd was in love with Torralva the shepherdess, as a wild buxo of the look of a man about her, for she had little

moustaches; I fancy I see her now"

"Then you knew her?" said Don Quixote

"I did not know her," said Sancho, "but he who told me the story said it

was so true and certain that when I told it to another I ht safely

declare and swear I had seen it all myself And so in course of ti in confusion, contrived that

the love the shepherd bore the shepherdess turned into hatred and

ill-will, and the reason, according to evil tongues, was some little

jealousy she caused hiround; and so much did the shepherd hate her from that time forward