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"As to whether it be pack-saddle or caparison," said the curate, "it is

only for Senor Don Quixote to say; for in these entleentles have

happened to me in this castle on the two occasions on which I have

sojourned in it, that I will not venture to assert anything positively in

reply to any question touching anything it contains; for it is oes by enchantment The first

tiavecertain followers of his; and last night I was

kept hanging by this ar hohy

I caive an

opinion in such a puzzling ards the assertion that this is a basin and not a heliven an answer; but as to the question whether this is a

pack-saddle or a caparison I will not venture to give a positive opinion,

but will leave it to your worships' better judghts liketo do with you, and your faculties are unfettered, and you can

see things in this castle as they really and truly are, and not as they

appear to me"

"There can be no question," said Don Fernando on this, "but that Senor

Don Quixote has spoken very wisely, and that with us rests the decision

of this o on, I will take

the votes of the gentlemen in secret, and declare the result clearly and