Young Folks Treasury, Volume 3 (of 12)

Don Quixote lost part of his helmet, and had the half of one of his ears sliced off by the Biscayan's sword. The accident to the helmet was a great grief to him, and he

between two villages Don Quixote ha

night that comes riding this way on a dapple-g

a fellow on just such another ass as mine, wi

lmet? Do you stand back, and let me deal with him. Soo

person. For the purpose of catching the blood that ran from a vein when it had been cut, a brass dish was carried, a dish with part of it cut away from one side, so that it might the more easily be held close to the patient's arm or body. A smal

wearing a golden helmet, was a barber riding on his ass to bleed a sick man. And because it was

ng his lance, galloped at him as hard as "Rozinante" coul

g run through, he flung himself on to the ground, and then jumping to his feet, ran for his life, l

, as he gave it to his ma

for which it was made must have been of great size. The worst of it is that at least

ered Sancho, "it is

e gold, and for the sake of a little wretched money some one has melted down the half of it. When we come to

many things, Don Quixote beheld a cl

ancho?" he asked. "It is raised b

ust be two armies there, for yonder

d, believing that two armies were a

o do, master?"

the gilded armory with a lion crouching at the feet of a lady painted on his shield, that is the valiant Laurcalco. That ot

ped. "Why, master, you might as well tell me that it s

anst thou not hear their horses

"Not I! I hear only

the Knight, "stand aside, and

o bawling to him, "Hold, sir! Stop! For Heaven's sake come back. As

left, trampling the living and the dead under "Rozinante's" feet. The shepherds, finding that he took no notice of their shouts, now

h he firmly believed to be a certain cure for all wounds. Of this he took a long gulp, but just at that moment another big st

epherds thinking that he was killed, ran away, ta

with nearly all the teeth gone from one side of h

ld you they were sheep. Why

the other. I will wager if you now mount your ass and ride over the hill after them, you will find no sheep the

e day read for yourself), Don Quixote and Sancho Panza rode away into the mo

stood still, both Don Quixote and Sancho Panza fell sound asleep without even getting out of their saddles. There sat the K

wandering thief saw

d of walking in these abominable mountains. Here's a chance of

se under each side of Sancho's saddle; then loosening the girths, he gr

led the tired ass away, and S

ithout opening his eyes, stretched himself. Down fe

Sancho got back the ass you must read for yourself in the History of Don Quixote. For yourself, too, you must read of Don Quixote's adventures in the mountains; how he the