The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-23

An" sighed the Don, If men were
 sent to the galleys for being in love I
 long since had been there myself"
 "Yes," said the youth, T fell in love with a basket of linen and made off
 with it."
 Don Quixote now turned to question
 one Gines de Passamonte, the most
 notorious rogue in Aragon, but the guard cried out:
 Enough of this foolng. Adjust
 your basin upon your head and go your way in peace, senor. Do not go feel- ing for three legs on a cat"
 You are a cat and rat and rascal | to boot! cried Don Quixote, and att | tackled the guard so suddenly that he
 threw him to the ground much wounde ] by thrust of his lance. The other guards recovering form their surprise,
 rushed toward the knight. and doubt less it would have gone hard with him
 had not the galley slaves taken ad- vantage of the tumult to break the
 chain by which they were linked to- gether. Sancho assisted Gines de Passamonte to free himself, and that
 desperate character seized the firelock
 of the overthrown gard. The others armed themselves with stones, and the guards were soon put to flight. The
 convicts gathered around Don Quixote to know his pleasure, for they thought he was a bandit and had come to their
 rescue in order that they might join his band. But when the Don in state ly words commanded them to go to the city of Toboso and present themselves before the peerless Dulcinea, they laughed at him. Then the knight,
 waxing wrathful and threatening, they | knocked him from his horse with stones, stripped him to the jacket he
 wore over his armor, and would have
 taken his trousers. too, had not the greaves hindered them. As for Mann brino's helmet, they tore 1t from his
 head and broke 1t in pieces. Then they took Sancho's cloak and made off. "Sancho," said Don Quixote solemnly as he sat up and rubbed his bruises. i have always heard 1t said that to do | good to the vulgar Is to throw water | into the sea-"
 AS am Turk" replied sancho, | what your worship must think of now | is to get out of this scrape. The guards will give the alarm and we shall be pursued and arrested by the Holy | Brotherhood. who care no more TOT knights-errant than for so many fleas. | Let us get into these mountains while l we yet can"
 The Don, protesting that 1t was in l order to do penance by fasting and by | scourging himself for love of his lady | and not for fear of the law that he went, | allowed Sancho to lead him into wild | and remote part of the Sierra Morena. | where, the next day, stripping himselr of most of his clothing, he began to | live his hermet's life according to the
 manner he had read of in books or
 chivaIry wherein knights are wont | upon occasion to retire from the world | to medttate upon their love affairs. Sancho was commanded to repair to
 Toboso, and, carrying his adoration to
 Dulcinea, bring him back word from the peerless princess. In a ravine Sancho | found a dead mule and a portmanteau. | and In the portmanteau one hundred | golden crowns. They were the
 property of young man whose love | had been abducted by powerful noble and who had retired in a half-mad con | dition to live amid these same wilds. l But Sancho. not knowing this. and, | in truth. not caring much as he con | sidered the find as a reward of chiV- | airy. appropriated the money and went
 on his mission.
 He had not proceeded far when ha
 met Master Nicholas. the barber, and
 the curate. who had left their village | to go in search of their demented | friend Learning from Sancho how
 matters stood, they resolved on a
 stratagem to get Don Quixote home again Disguisng themselves and
 pretending that they were emissaries | from a princess Micomicon, who begged
 the valor of the illustrious Don Quixote
 to come to her assistance, they lured | the knight from his penance and as 1 far home as the inn at which he and
 Sancho had lodged and suffered.
 Then. being unable to keep up the | joke longer, they bound the Don hand
 and foot while he slept, and placing l him In hastily constructed cage on a
 cart they carried him within a day's 8
 journey of his village. Then. as he | promised not to give them the slip. they let him out. But scarcely had Don
 Quixote been released from his cage
 than he saw a procession come forth
 on the plain to pray for rain. He i'm
 mediately charged 1t for a hostile army. and got so well beaten by the peasants for his pains that his friends finally
 took him to his house and put him to bed, where he lay for couple ot weeks.
 The curate and the barber enlisted
 in their cause. which was the keeping g of Don Quixote at home, one Sampson
 Carrasco, a young bachelor of arts. just returning from his university.