The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-23
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 head and held 1t there by passing a strap over it and under his chin, so that his appearance was more remarkable even than before. The errant knight then raised his eyes and saw approaching in the same road about dozen men strung out like beads, held by the neck in a great iron chain and all handcuffed. With them were two men on horseback armed with firelocks, and two men on foot armed with bikes and swords. As soon as Sancho saw them he exclaimed: :: Here come some criminals condemned to the galleys.'
 "Then these men are carried off against their will,' said the Don. Here is where my office comes in
 ''I would have speech with these men," said Don Quixote, courteously riding up to the guards You may ask few questions was the reply but their commitments are all regular and we have lit,ie time"
 What are you sent to the galleys for?'' asked the knight of a reckless looking young fellow For being in love- re- piled the youth with grin. ''Ah," 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, l 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 fooling. Adjust your basin upon your head and go your way In peace, senor. Do not go feeling for three legs on a cat"
 You are cat and rat and a rascal to boot" cried Don Quixote, and at tackled the guard so suddenly that he threw him to the ground much wounded by a thrust of his lance. The other guards, recovering from their surprise, rushed toward the knight, and doubtless it would have gone hard with him had not the galley slaves taken advantage of the tumult to break the chain by which they were linked together. Sancho as- sisted Gines de Passamonte to free him self, and that desperate character seized the firelock of the overthrown guard. The others armed themselves with stones and the guards were soon put to flight. The conylcts gathered around Don Quixote to know his pleasuye. for they thought he was bandit and had come to their rescue in order that they might Join his band. But when the Don in stately 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 of the Jacket he wore over his armor, and would have taken his trousers, too had not the greaves hindered them. As for Mambrino's helmet they tore 1t from his head and broke 1t in pieces Then they took Sanchos cloak and made off
 "Sancho," said Don Quixote solemnly as he sat up and rubbed his bruises, q have always heard it said that to do good to the vulgar is to throw water into the sea-"
 ''As I am Turk replied sancho, what your worship must think of now is to get ou. of this scrape. The guards will give the alarm and we shall be pursued and arrested by the Holy Brotherhood who care no more for knights errant than for so many fieas. Let us get into these mountains while we yet can'
 The Don, protesting that 1t was in or der 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 a wild and remote part of the Sierra Morena where the next day. stripping himself of most of his clothing, he began to live his hermit's life according to the manner he had read of in books of chivalry where in knights are wont upon occasion to re- tire from the world to mediate upon their love affairs
 Sancho was commanded to repair to Toboso. and carrying his adoration to Dulclnea, bring him back word from the peerless princess. In ravne Sancho found a dead mule and a portmanteau. and in the portmantead one hundred golden crowns. They were the property of young man whose love had been ab- ducted by a powerful noble and who had retired in half-mad condition to live amid these same wilds. But Sancho, not knowing this, and. in truth. not caring much. as he considered the find as a reward of chivalry, appropriated the money and went on his mission
 He had not proceeded far when he met