Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-02-12

Quixotes friends, named Samson Car
rasco. This Carrasco had conspired
with the eurate and the barber to cure
the Don's frenzy by vanquishing him
and then requiring him to return home !;
but the knights unexpected prowess de-
feated this scheme and broke some Of
Carrasco's ribs withal.
Much elated, Don Quixote soon after
overlook wagon containing two fierce
lions
Honest fellow" he cried to their
keepsr, "let them both out; l will make
the creatures know who Don Quixote de
Ia Mancha is !''
.Saneho on his ass and the WAGNER
with his mules hurried off at full speed,
but when the door was opened the wild
beasts refused to come out, and our he
ro, elated at this, dubbed himself Knight
of the Lions.
His next knightly exploit came to
pass at an inn where he routed and de-
stroyed whole company of puppets, for
which, however, he paid very honestly.
A few days later he fell in with a
veritable duchess. She and the duke,
having heard of Don Quixote and his
squire, and being minded to have some
sport, invited them to the castle, where
they were treated with amazing conde-
scension. AS the knight was much dis
turbed by the enchantment of his Dull
cinea, the dukes steward contrived a
frightful procession of devils and necro-
mancers. one of whom declared tha+ -
restore
"Toboso's pride, the peerless Ducinea.
'Tis fate's decree that Sancho give himself
Three thousand lashes and exc three hundred more.
"What !" quoth Sancho, "three thou
sand lashes 1 will not give myself
three ~
"Hold now, rascal! p cried Don Quix-
ote 81 will tie you to tree and give
you six thousand !"
"Hold !" cried the magician, "the
stripes must be voluntary, and only laid
on when he thinks convenient. "
The afflicted Sancho was at last per-
suaded to undertake this penance, where
upon his master gave him a thousand
kisses.
The same cunning steward also con-
trived an embassy of duennas to Don
Quixote. soliciting him to undertake a
prodigious journey on miraculous
wooden horse, and do battle with gi-
gantic and villainous enchanter named
Melambruno. The valorous knight and
the timorous Sancho were presently
mounted blindfold on wooden steed
full of explosives, which soon blew up
and threw the riders on the ground. But
they were ingeniously convinced that
the projected adventure had been accom-
plished only by attempting it, and the
duke hailed Don Quixote as "the brav
est of knights
Sancho had always believed his mas
ter's promis: to make him governor o
an island, and to humor this belief tn,
dukes steward contrived to install hin
as ruler of small town, which he wa
gravely assured was the island of Bara
taria. Sancho administered his ofic
with unexpected aeuteness and mucl
honesty, but his physician kept him Of
such short allowance that he was nearl
starved, and was soon glad to relinquis
his governorship and rejoin his maste
again.
At last the two bade farewell to tn
duke and duchess, and started in ques
of fresh adventures, Sancho being wor
drously cheerful over gift from tn
steward of two hundred crowns. Settin
up as champion of troop of shepherd
esses, Don Quixote defed a herd of viii
bulls, who made no ado about runnin
over both him and his squire, and tran
pling them soundly. But this misaC
venture was nothing to his fate at tt
hands of the Knight of the White Moor
who vanquished him off hand. and r.
quired him, as captive, to return gu
etly home and remain there year. III
victorious knight was Samson Carrasc
who had thus carried out the plan
which he was at first foiled.
Sancho had been very remiss abol
giving himself the lashes which were
disenchant Dulcinea, but after their r
turn home, his disconsolate master ha
AHS pIOnloSu Hlu OulOO pCAOO OebOh,
set to work in convenient woody plac
the Don standing near to count t
strokes. Finding they did not agr
we'll with his back, Sancho slyly la
his ropes end on the trees instead, al
thus disposed of about two thousand
the lashes before he stopped. But t
job was never finished, for, while D
Quixote was planning to spend his ye
of enforced rest as a shepherd errant,
was suddenly seized with fever whi
= carried him off in a few days, thou
not till he had so cleared his intellt
that he realized all his follies and ma
q his will bequeathing his estate to
o niece Antonia, with an express provisi
. that it should be diverted to pious III