The Life and Exploits of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote de La Mancha (Volume 3-4)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: world, in whatever they are pleased to ask me, both concerning the loss of Dapple, and what became of the hundred crowns.' So, without waiting for an answer, or speaking a word more, he went to his own house. Don Quixote pressed and entreated the bachelor to stay, and do penance with him. The bachelor accepted of the invitation, and staid. Two pigeons were added to the usual commons, and the conversation at table fell upon the subject of chivalry. Carrasco carried on the humour: the banquet was ended: they slept out the heat of the day: Sancho came back, and the former discourse was resumed. CHAPTER IV. Wherein Sancho Panza answers Hie bachelor Sampton Carruen'i doubts and questions, with other incidents worUiy lo be known and recited. Sahcho came back to Don Quixote's house, and resuming the former discourse, in answer to what the bachelor Sampson Carrasco desired to be informed of, namely, by whom, when, and how the ass was stolen, he said, That very night, when, flying from the holy brotherhood, we entered into the Sable Mountain, after the unlucky adventure of the galley-slaves, and of the dead body that was carrying to Segovia, my master and I got into a thicket, where, he leaning upon his lance, and I sitting upon Dapple, being both of us mauled and fatigued by our late skirmishes, we fell asleep as soundly as if re had had four feather beds under us: especially I for my part slept so fast, that the thief, whoever he was, had leisure enough to suspend me on foul stakes, which he planted under the four corners of the pannel, and in this manner, leaving me mounted thereon, got Dapple from under me, without my feeling it.' 'That is an easy matter, and no new accident, ' said Don Quixote; 'for the like happened to Sacripante at the siege of Albraca, where that famous ro..