| Back | "Unless, indeed, this is a deliberate joke, I cannot bring myself to believe that men so intelligent as those present are, or seem to be, can venture to declare and assert that this is not a basin, and that not a pack-saddle; but as I perceive that they do assert and declare it, I can only come to the conclusion that there is some mystery in this persistence in what is so opposed to the evidence of experience and truth itself; for I swear by"—and here he rapped out a round oath-"all the people in the world will not make me believe that this is not a barber's basin and that a jackass's pack-saddle." |
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| Front | -Si ya no es que esto sea burla pesada, no me puedo persuadir que hombres de tan buen entendimiento como son, o parecen, todos los que aquí están, se atrevan a decir y afirmar que ésta no es bacía, ni aquélla albarda; mas, como veo que lo afirman y lo dicen, me doy a entender que no carece de misterio el porfiar una cosa tan contraria de lo que nos muestra la misma verdad y la misma experiencia; porque, ¡voto a tal! -y arrojóle redondo-, que no me den a mí a entender cuantos hoy viven en el mundo al revés de que ésta no sea bacía de barbero y ésta albarda de asno. |
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