Young Folks Treasury, Volume 3 (of 12)

ho Panza rode again away from their village, it seemed to Don Quixote that certainly it w

Toboso, and the whole town was s

palace, Sancho,"

saw her, she lived in a little cottage in a blind alley. And even if it

this?" said the Knight, riding up to a huge building, and knocki

ing began to break, Sancho persuaded him to come and rest in a grove of trees two miles outside the town

be back in a trice. Don't be cast do

he had not ridden far, when, turning round and finding that his master was no longer in sigh

he to himself, "what

n of Beauty, and all sorts of other fine things, and who liv

you going t

lock together. But if he's so mad as to mistake windmills for giants, and flocks of sheep for armies, why, it shouldn't be so very hard to make him believe that the first country lass I meet is the Lady Dulcin

ng, so that his master might think that all the day had been s

Quixote, he spied coming that way three country lasses mounted on asse

sked the Knight. "Has

clap spurs to 'Rozinante' and get into the open fields, and you'll meet

Knight. "What do you say, my

ssed up and decked with jewels. Her damsels and she are all covered with diamonds, and rubies, and cloth of go

u meanest, Sancho,

ll one and the same thing. Any way, I'm sure I never set e

e you the very best things I get in our next adventure. And if that is not e

"As for the other things, I'm not sure

and could see the three count

here but these girls, he was much troubled in his mind, and as

ir? In the name of wonder, do you not see her and her maid

, but three country we

mistake three what do you call 'ems-ambling nags as white as snow

Sancho, the

r your eyes, and go and speak to the Mistr

irls, and, jumping off his ass, fell on his

ature that Sancho had told him was the beautiful Dulcinea. He was lost in wonder, for she was

med the girl, "and let us go abou

inced that misfortune has not yet finished with me. O most beautiful lady! a sp

t of the way, and let us alone." And kicking her donkey in the ribs, she ga

that: to take from her the sweet and delicate scent of fragrant flowers, and give to her what she has. For

ht see the lot of you threaded on one string, and hung up in the smok

sad, and letting "Rozina