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They feasted on the scraps that remained in the alforjas , while Rocinante and Sancho's ass were left free to pluck all the grass they desired.
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This decision was reached when Don Quixote remembered that Silenus, the teacher of the God of Laughter, had entered the city of the hundred gates mounted on a handsome ass.
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Scratching his head, Sancho now began to worry about his faithful donkey, for he believed it was not good taste to go into battle mounted on an ass, and if he dismounted, he was afraid his Dapple would be lost in the ensuing tumult.
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Sancho then said he could plainly see that the man's horse was an ass and that the man had something on his head that shone.
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His next concern was his stomach; and when they found that the barber's ass carried ample supplies, they soon satisfied their appetites.
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Sancho now turned the conversation to the rest of the spoils of war; but Don Quixote was unable to make up his mind that [Pg 67] it was chivalrous to exchange a bad ass for a good one, as was his squire's wish; so Sancho had to satisfy himself with the barber's trappings.
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CHAPTER XXIII Of What Befell Don Quixote in the Sierra Morena, Which Is One of the Rarest Adventures Related in This Veracious History SANCHO at last convinced his master that they had best hide in the Sierra Morena mountains for a few days, in case a search should be made for them; and Don Quixote was pleased to find that the provisions carried by Sancho's ass had not disappeared.
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Sancho's covetousness did not permit his master to forget the three promised ass-colts; so Don Quixote wrote an order to his niece in the notebook of the ill-starred Cardenio.
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At this moment a man, mounted on an ass, was seen on the road, and Sancho, no doubt feeling instinctively the proximity of his beloved animal, recognized in the man Gines de Pasamonte.
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"The curse of God on thee for a blockhead!" he exclaimed.
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But when Don Quixote saw the three peasant girls approach, he said he could see nothing but three jackasses and three girls.
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Sancho was moved to tears by his master's wrath, and he confessed in a broken voice that if he had only had a tail he would have been a complete ass himself.
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But, he said, if his master should care to attach one to him, he would willingly wear one, and serve him all his life as an ass.
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Then, addressing the Duke, whom he had forbidden to read the book about Don Quixote's adventures, he said: "This Don Simpleton, or whatever his name is, cannot be such a blockhead as your Excellency would have him, holding out encouragement to him to go on with his vagaries and follies."
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She suggested that when he had his government in hand, he ought to pension Dapple off and let him quit working; and Sancho thought that was by no means a bad idea, for, he said, he would not be the first ass to be so pensioned.