The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-23

Master Nicholas, the barber and the | eu-ate. 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 Dor. Quixote home again. Disgusting
 themselves and pretending that they were
 emissaries from a princess Micomicon, who begged the Valor of the illustrous Don Quixote to come to her assistance, they lured the knight from his penance i and as far home as the inn at which he
 and Sancho had once lodged and suffered.
 Then, being unable to keep up the joke
 longer they bound the Don hand and
 foot while he slept, and placing him in
 a hastily constructed cage on cart
 they carried him within a days journey
 of his village. Then. he promised not to give them the slip, they let him out.
 But scarcely had Don Quixote been re- leased from his cage than he saw q pro-
 cesson come forth on the plain to pray
 for rain. He immediately charged it 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 of weeks. L.
 The curate and the barber enlisted In
 their cause which was the keeping of
 Don Quixote at home one Sampson Car
 rasco young bachelor of arts, just re-
 turned from his university. Seeing that
 the Don was determined to take to the
 road again, the bachelor advised that
 they should not try to hinder him by force, he had q stratagem which he
 thought would work mighty well. As soon as Don Quxote was able to lift , dance again he departed, taking Sancho along with him, in search of new ad- ventures. The hundred golden crowns 1 which Sancho had brought back induced O
 parture, but with some misgivvlngs as to the greatness of being an island governor
 which he prated about.
 '"rhe best sauce in the world" said she, "is hunger; and as the poor are never without that they eat with relish;
 but if you should chance to get an island
 remember your family"
 If I do not get an island I will die in the attempt said Sancho vaiantly.
 Nay" replied his wife, let the hen
 live, though 1t be with the pip"
 Sancho l was born and Sancho l shall die," returned the squire, but for all
 that if an island comes in my way l shall
 take 1t, for, as the saying Is, When they
 offer you heifer be ready with a rope
 an- When Fortune knocks, make haste
 to let her in"
 Don Quixote and Sancho had not pro- eeeded far on their journey when they encountered mounted man in armor He had over his armor coat which shone wi.l many little pieces of glass and a plumed waved over his closed helmet The stranger announced himself as the
 Knight of the Mirrors and called upon Don Quixote to acknowledge the peerless
 Caslldea de Vandalia as the most beauti- ful and most Vrtuous princess in the world He also vaunted himself that he had overthrown in combat that redoubt- able knight, Don Quixote de la Mancha.
 The Don gave the stranger the lie upon both propositions and demanded to fight
 1t out immediately. This the other agreed
 to on condition that the vanquished
 should remain at the discretion of his conqueror
 As the two knights rode against each other, he of the mirrors seemed greatly perplexed what to do with his lance to the handling of which he was evidently unaccustomed. His horse, also was a sorry beast. more dejected if possible
 than Rozinante. The result was that Don Quixote sent his adversary tumbling over his horse's crupper
 As the Knight of the Mirrors lay like one dead, the Don dsmounted and un- 1 laced his adversary's helmet to see how | badly he might be wounded Vast was 1 the Don's astonishment to see in the face l of the fallen knight the very effIgy and i, semblance of the bachelor, Sampson Car rasco.
 ".;ee what wicked enchanters have ] done." cried Don Quixote. They have 1 changed this knight Into the semblance | of my young friend" "
 l By this time the Knight of the Mirrors 1 began to recover his senses. upon which i the Don. placing the point of his sword ] to the throat of his fallen foe, said in a l stern voice:
 | You are a dead man. Sir Knight if ! you do not at once acknowledge that the peerless Princess Dulcinea del Toboso ex-