| Back | This graceful lass, then, helped the young girl, and the two made up a very bad bed for Don Quixote in a garret that showed evident signs of having formerly served for many years as a straw-loft, in which there was also quartered a carrier whose bed was placed a little beyond our Don Quixote's, and, though only made of the pack-saddles and cloths of his mules, had much the advantage of it, as Don Quixote's consisted simply of four rough boards on two not very even trestles, a mattress, that for thinness might have passed for a quilt, full of pellets which, were they not seen through the rents to be wool, would to the touch have seemed pebbles in hardness, two sheets made of buckler leather, and a coverlet the threads of which anyone that chose might have counted without missing one in the reckoning. |
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| Front | En la cual también alojaba un arriero, que tenía su cama hecha un poco más allá de la de nuestro don Quijote. Y, aunque era de las enjalmas y mantas de sus machos, hacía mucha ventaja a la de don Quijote, que sólo contenía cuatro mal lisas tablas, sobre dos no muy iguales bancos, y un colchón que en lo sutil parecía colcha, lleno de bodoques, que, a no mostrar que eran de lana por algunas roturas, al tiento, en la dureza, semejaban de guijarro, y dos sábanas hechas de cuero de adarga, y una frazada, cuyos hilos, si se quisieran contar, no se perdiera uno solo de la cuenta. |
Tags: 250spn, spn
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