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Sancho, finding hi the abuse

poured upon him, seized the pack-saddle with one hand, and with the other

gave the barber a cuff that bathed his teeth in blood The barber,

however, was not so ready to relinquish the prize he had made in the

pack-saddle; on the contrary, he raised such an outcry that everyone in

the inn ca to knohat the noise and quarreland justice!" he cried, "this thief and highway to recover hwayman; it was in fair war my master

Don Quixote won these spoils"

Don Quixote was standing by at the tihly pleased to see his

squire's stoutness, both offensive and defensive, and from that time

forth he reckoned him a ht on the first opportunity that presented itself, feeling sure

that the order of chivalry would be fittingly bestowed upon his the barber said,

"Gentlemen, this pack-saddle is mine as surely as I owe God a death, and

I know it as well as if I had given birth to it, and here is my ass in