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"Nice nonsense!" said the commissary; "a fine piece of pleasantry he has

coo, as if

we had any authority to release theood luck to you; put that basin straight that you've got

on your head, and don't go looking for three feet on a cat"

"'Tis you that are the cat, rat, and rascal," replied Don Quixote, and

acting on the word he fell upon hi hiround sorely wounded with a

lance-thrust; and lucky it was for hiuards stood thunderstruck and a presence of mind, those on horseback

seized their swords, and those on foot their javelins, and attacked Don

Quixote, aiting for theone badly with hi the chance

before the

to break the chain on which they were strung Such was the confusion,

that the guards, now rushing at the galley slaves ere breaking

loose, now to attack Don Quixote aiting for the at

all that was of any use Sancho, on his part, gave a helping hand to

release Gines de Pasamonte, as the first to leap forth upon the

plain free and unfettered, and who, attacking the prostrate commissary,

took fro at one and

levelling at another, he, without ever discharging it, drove every one of

the guards off the field, for they took to flight, as well to escape