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IN WHICH THE DOUBTFUL QUESTION OF MAMBRINO'S HELMET AND THE PACK-SADDLE

IS FINALLY SETTLED, WITH OTHER ADVENTURES THAT OCCURRED IN TRUTH AND

EARNEST

"What do you think now, gentleentles say, when they want to make out that this is a helmet?"

"And whoever says the contrary," said Don Quixote, "I will let hiht, and if he is a squire that he lies again a

thousand times"

Our own barber, as present at all this, and understood Don Quixote's

huhly, took it into his head to back up his delusion and

carry on the joke for the general a the other

barber he said:

"Senor barber, or whatever you are, youto your

profession too, and have had a licence to practise for more than twenty

years, and I know the implements of the barber craft, every one of them,

perfectly well; and I was likewise a soldier for some time in the days of

my youth, and I know also what a helmet is, and a s pertaining to soldiering, Ibetter opinions and alith

subments--that this piece we have now before us,

which this worthy gentleman has in his hands, not only is no barber's

basin, but is as far fro one as white is from black, and truth