Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1877-01-27


a surtout besprinkled with little noon
of polished glass. This Knight of th'
Mirrors, who championed the beautiful
Casildea de Vandalia, was quickly I'M
horsed, and proved to be ono of Dor
Quixote's friends, named Samson Gar
rasco. This Carrasco had conspiret
with the curate 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
4, Carrasco's ribs withal. LIB.
Much elated, Don Quixote soon after
overlook wagon containing two fierce
lions.
"Honest fellow" he cried to their
keeper, "let them both out will
,make the creatures know who Don
Quixote de Ia Mancha is !"
Sancho on his ass and the WAGNER
with his mules hurried off Mt full speed,
but when the door was opened the wild
beasts refused to come ont, and our hero,
elated at this, dubbed himself Knight of
the Lions. r. ....
His next knightly exploit came to pass
Mt M inn where he routed and destroyed
n whole company of puppets, for which,
however, he paid very honestly.
A few days later he fell in with veri-
table 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 enchantmept of his Dull
cinea, the dukes steward contrived q
frightful procession of devils and necro-
mancers, one of whom declared that to
restore
"Tobosos PRIDE the peerless Dulcinea
'Tis fate's decree that Sancho give himself
Three Thousand lashes and eke three hun
dred moro.'
"What !" quoth Sancho, three
thousand lashes I will not give myself
three !'
Hold now, rascal !" cried Don Quix-
ote; 81 will tie you to tree and give
you six thousand -
Hold p cried the magician, "the
stripes must be voluntary, and only
laid on when he thinks convenient"
The afflicted Sancho was at last per-
suadcd to undertake this penance, where
upon his master gave him thousand
kisses.
The same cunning steward also con-
tlived an embassy of duennas to Don
Qlixote, soliciting him to undertake
prodigious journey on u miraculous
wooden horse, and do battle with gi-
gantic and villainous enchanter named
fMelambrno. 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 OH 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 BRAY
est Of knights -
.Snncho had always believed his mas
ter's promise to make him governor of an
island, and to humor this belief the
dukes steward contrived to install him
as ruler of small town, which he was
gravely assured was the island of Bara-
taria. Sancho administered his office
with unexpected acuteness and much
honesty, but his physician kept him on
such short allowance THAI he was nearly
starved, and was soon glad to relnquish
his governorship and reioin his master
again.
At last the two babe farewell to the
duke and duchess, and started in quest
of fresh adventures, Sancho being won
drously cheerful over gift from the
steward of two hundred crowns. Setting
up as champion Of troop of shepherd
esses, Don Quixote defed a herd of wild
bulls, who made no ado about running
over both him and his squire, and
them sonndly. But this mis-
adventure was nothing to his fate at the
hands of the Knight of the White
Moon, who vanquishcd him off hand,
and required him, as a captive, to return
quietly home and remain there year.
The victorious knight was Samson Car
rasco, who had thus carried out the plan
in which he was at first foiled.
Sancho had been very remiss about
giving himself the lashes which were to
Dulcinea, but after their re
turn home, his disconsolate master hav-
ing promised him three pence each, he
set to work in a convenient woody place,
the Don standing near to count the
strokes. Finding they did not agree
well with his back, Sancho slyly laid his
ropes end on the trees instead, and thus
disposed of about two thousand of the
lashes before he stopped. But the job
was never finished, for, while Don Quix-
ote was planning to spend his year of
enforced rest as a shepherd errant, he was
seized with fever which car
red him off in a few days, though not
ill he had so cleared his intellect that
le realized all his follies and made his
will bequeathing his estate to his neice
Antonia, with an express provision that
t should be diverted to pious uses if she
married a man who had ever read sin
gle book of knight errantry.
KILLED by A DRUNKEN DRIvER.-H.
;. Barnard, of Albion, n Y, was found