Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-01-08

odilc lOWHs WOuiu say, llldJ HOne Oh
them could compare with the Knight of
the Sun; and that if any one came near
him, it was certainly Don Galaor, the
brother of Amadis de Gaul; for he was
a man of most commodious temper, nei-
Their was he so finical, nor such win
ming lover, as his brother; and as for
courage, he was not behind him.
In fine, he gave himself up so wholly
to the reading of romances, that at night
he would pore on until it was day, and
would read on all day until it was night;
and thus a world of extraordinary no.
tons, picked out of his books, crowded
into his imagination; now his head was
full of nothing but entertainments, quar-
rels, battles, challenges, wounds, conf
plants, love-passages, torments, and
abundance of absurd impossibilties in
so much that all the fables and fantas-
teal tales which he read seemed to him
now as true as the most authentic histo-
ries. He would say, that the Cid Ruy-
dias was very brave knight, but not
worthy to stand in competition with the
Knight of the Burning-sword, who with
a single back-strolle would cut sunder
two fierce and mighty giants. He liked
yet better Bernardo del Carpio, who, at
Roncesvalles, deprived of life the en-
chanted Orlando, having lifted him from
the ground, and choked him in the air, as
rIIercules did Antaus, the son of the
Earth.
As for the giant Inorganic, he always
spoke very civil things of him; for
among that monstrous BROOD who were
ever intolerably proud and insolent, he
alone behaved himself like civil and
well-bred person.
But of all men in the world he adj
mired Rinaldo of Montalban. and partic-
ularly his carrying away the idol of Ma
homet, which was all massy gold, as the
history says; while he so hated that
traitor Gallalon, that for the pleasure of
kicking him handsomely, he would have
given up his housekeeper, nay and his
neice into the bargain.
Having thus confused his understand
ing, he unluckily stumbled upon the cd
dest fancy that ever entered into mad
mans brain; for now he thought it con-
venient and necessary, as well as for the
a increase of his own honor, as the service
n of the public, to turn knight-errant, and
t roam through the whole world, armed
i cap-a-pe, and mounted on his steed. in
e quest of adventures that thus initiating
. those knight-errants of whom he had
4 read, and following their course of life,
h redressing all manner of grievances, and
n exposing himself to danger on all oc-
n casions, at last after happy conclusion
+ of his enterprises. he might purchase ev-
a erlasting honour and renown.
5 The first thing he did was to scour "a
i suit of armor that had belonged to his
t great-grandfather lain time out of mind
= carelessly rusting in corner; but when he
+ had cleaned and repaired it as well as he
u could, he perceived there was a material
II piece wanting; for, instead of a COM
/ plete helmet, there was only single
= head-piece. However, his industry SUD-
5 piled that defect; for with some PASTE
II,
> vizor, which, being fitted to the head
: piece, made it look like an entire helmet.
i Then, to know whether it was cutlass-
proof, he drew his sword, and tried its
I edge upon the pasteboard vizOr but with
y the very first stroke he unlucllily undid
> in moment what he had been a whole
week in doing. He did not like its being
broke with so much ease, and therefore
= to secure it from the like accident, he
. made it anew, and fenced it with thin
. plates of iron, which he fixed on the in
side of it so artifically, that at last he
" had reason to be satisfied with the solidi-
ty of the work; and so without any far
= Their experiment, he resolved it should
pass to all ntents and purposes for full
and sufficient helmet.
!, The next moment he went to view his
= horse, whose bones stuck out like the
q corners of Spanish real, being a worse
jade than Gonea's, qui tantum pellis ct
q Ossd fuit; however, his master thought
! that neither AleXander's Bucephalus nor
# the Cid's Bavieca could be compared with
n him. He was four days considering
what name to give him: for as he argued
with himself, there was no reason that a
q horse bestrid by so famous a knight, and
wthal so excellent in himself. should not
h be distinguished by IA particular name !;
- so, after many names which he devised,
!, rejected, changed, liked, disliked, and
pitched upon again, he concluded to call
81 him Rozinante.
" Having thus given his horse name,
r and having seriously pondered on the
N matter eight whole days more, at last
lie he determined to call himself Don QuiX-
n ote. Whence the author of this history