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WHICH TREATS OF THE HEROIC AND PRODIGIOUS BATTLE DON QUIXOTE HAD WITH

CERTAIN SKINS OF RED WINE, AND BRINGS THE NOVEL OF "THE ILL-ADVISED

CURIOSITY" TO A CLOSE

There remained but little more of the novel to be read, when Sancho Panza

burst forth in wild excite, "Run, sirs! quick; and help hest and stiffest battle I ever laid eyes on By the

living God he has given the giant, the enemy of my lady the Princess

Micomicona, such a slash that he has sliced his head clean off as if it

were a turnip"

"What are you talking about, brother?" said the curate, pausing as he was

about to read the remainder of the novel "Are you in your senses,

Sancho? How the devil can it be as you say, when the giant is two

thousand leagues away?"

Here they heard a loud noise in the chaand, villain; now I have got thee, and thy

scih he were

slashing vigorously at the wall

"Don't stop to listen," said Sancho, "but go in and part theh there is no need of that now, for no doubt the giant is

dead by this ti account to God of his past wicked life; for

I saw the blood flowing on the ground, and the head cut off and fallen on

one side, and it is as big as a large wine-skin"

"May I die," said the landlord at this, "if Don Quixote or Don Devil has

not been slashing some of the skins of red wine that stand full at his

bed's head, and the spilt wine ood fellow takes for

blood;" and so saying he went into the room and the rest after hiest costu enough in front to cover his thighs

cos were very long