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OF THE DELECTABLE DISCUSSION BETWEEN DON QUIXOTE AND SANCHO PANZA, HIS

SQUIRE, TOGETHER WITH OTHER INCIDENTS

"All that is not unsatisfactory to me," said Don Quixote "Go on; thou

didst reach her; and as that queen of beauty doing? Surely thou

didst find her stringing pearls, or eold

thread for this her enslaved knight"

"I did not," said Sancho, "but I found her ing two bushels of wheat

in the yard of her house"

"Then depend upon it," said Don Quixote, "the grains of that wheat were

pearls when touched by her hands; and didst thou look, friend? was it

white wheat or brown?"

"It was neither, but red," said Sancho

"Then I promise thee," said Don Quixote, "that, ed by her hands,

beyond a doubt the bread it avest her my letter, did she kiss it? Did she place it on her head? Did

she perfor it, or what did she do?"

"When I went to give it to her," replied Sancho, "she was hard at it

swaying from side to side with a lot of wheat she had in the sieve, and

she said to me, 'Lay the letter, friend, on the top of that sack, for I