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OF HOW THE CURATE AND THE BARBER PROCEEDED WITH THEIR SCHEME; TOGETHER

WITH OTHER MATTERS WORTHY OF RECORD IN THIS GREAT HISTORY

The curate's plan did not seeood that they ied a petticoat and hood of the landlady, leaving her in pledge a

new cassock of the curate's; and the barber rey-brown or red ox-tail in which the landlord used to stick his cos for, and the curate

told her in a feords about the uise was intended to get him away from the mountain where he then

was The landlord and landlady imuest, the balsam man and master of the blanketed

squire, and they told the curate all that had passed between hi what Sancho had been so silent about Finally the

landlady dressed up the curate in a style that left nothing to be

desired; she put on him a cloth petticoat with black velvet stripes a

palreen velvet set off by a

binding of white satin, which as well as the petticoatWamba The curate would not let them hood him,

but put on his head a little quilted linen cap which he used for a

night-cap, and bound his forehead with a strip of black silk, while with

another he made a mask hich he concealed his beard and face very

well He then put on his hat, which was broad enough to serve hi himself in his cloak seated himself

woman-fashion on his mule, while the barber led red and white, for it was, as has been said, the

tail of a clay-red ox

They took leave of all, and of the good Maritornes, who, sinner as she