The 15,767 occurrences of ass

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'Don't be an ass,' said Lowndes.

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A cock crew; somewhere an ass, disturbed in his sleep, brayed aloud and insolently as in daytime, then reluctantly and gradually relapsed into silence.

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But then Thomas never did know anything, though he asked questions about everything, and looked so straight with his bright, transparent eyes, through which, as through a pane of Phoenician glass, was visible a wall, with a dismal ass tied to it.

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But it is only dust, my good Thomas, ass's dung trodden underfoot.

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Now it almost stands still, so that one would wish to push it with the hands, to kick it, beat it with a whip like a lazy ass.

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A jay can cry, a jay can laugh, a jay can feel shame, a jay can reason and plan and discuss, a jay likes gossip and scandal, a jay has got a sense of humor, a jay knows when he is an ass just as well as you do-maybe better.

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I measured the ground which this ass traversed, and arrived at the conclusion that what he had accomplished inside of twenty minutes would constitute some such job as this-relatively speaking-for a man; to wit: to strap two eight-hundred-pound horses together, carry them eighteen hundred feet, mainly over (not around) boulders averaging six feet high, and in the course of the journey climb up and jump from the top of one precipice like Niagara, and three steeples, each a hundred and twenty feet high; and then put the horses down, in an exposed place, without anybody to watch them, and go off to indulge in some other idiotic miracle for vanity's sake.

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Mr. Ruskin would have said: This person is an ass.

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I think you are the very last possibility in the way of an ass."

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The foreign words and phrases which they use have their exact equivalents in a nobler language-English; yet they think they 'adorn their page' when they say STRASSE for street, and BAHNHOF for railway-station, and so on-flaunting these fluttering rags of poverty in the reader's face and imagining he will be ass enough to take them for the sign of untold riches held in reserve.

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Every time a poor devil has been set upon his feet I have detected your hand in it-incorrigible ass!"

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And though he once was fond of music (in spite of an idle story about his ears, which were said to resemble those of an ass), the only music for poor Midas now was the chink of one coin against another.

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...X. is, I am afraid, more or less of an ass.

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What an ass a man is to try to prevent his fellow-creatures from being humbugged!

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So far as I have seen any notices, the British critic (what a dull ass he is) appears to have been seriously struck by my sweetness of temper.

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One morning I went to breakfast with him, and we got into very intimate conversation, when he wound up by saying, 'In my opinion, Plato was an ass!

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Clifford, of February 10, 1895:--] Men, my dear, are very queer animals, a mixture of horse-nervousness, ass-stubbornness and camel-malice--with an angel bobbing about unexpectedly like the apple in the posset, and when they can do exactly as they please, they are very hard to drive.

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He recognizes also at a glance the sort of silly ass who is always losing his indiarubber umbrella ring.

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But the idea roughly is that if a man holds his cigar between his finger and thumb, he is courageous and kind to animals (or whatever it may be), and if he holds it between his first and second fingers he is impulsive but yet considerate to old ladies, and if he holds it upside down he is (besides being an ass) jealous and self-assertive, and if he sticks a knife into the stump so as to smoke it to the very end he is-- yes, you have guessed this one--he is mean.

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To your Samson was given supernatural power, and when he broke the withes, and slew the thousands with the jawbone of an ass, and carried away the gate's of the city upon his shoulders, you were amazed-and also awed, for you recognized the divine source of his strength.

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But there are the whirring of locusts, the demoniac chuckle of the laughing jack-ass, the screeching of cockatoos and parrots, the hissing of the frilled lizard, and the buzzing of innumerable insects hidden under the dense undergrowth.

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If he should ever cross to the other side of the Ganges and get caught out and die there he would at once come to life again in the form of an ass.

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The Hindoo has a childish and unreasoning aversion to being turned into an ass.

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One could properly expect an ass to have an aversion to being turned into a Hindoo.

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But the Hindoo changed into an ass wouldn't lose anything, unless you count his religion.

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It is a state which other Hindoos reach by being born again and again, and over and over again into this world, through one re-incarnation after another-a tiresome long job covering centuries and decades of centuries, and one that is full of risks, too, like the accident of dying on the wrong side of the Ganges some time or other and waking up in the form of an ass, with a fresh start necessary and the numerous trips to be made all over again.

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All within the space of a single week it had made Jameson an illustrious hero in England, a pirate in Pretoria, and an ass without discretion or honor in Johannesburg; also it had produced a poet-laureatic explosion of colored fireworks which filled the world's sky with giddy splendors, and, the knowledge that Jameson was coming with it to rescue the women and children emptied Johannesburg of that detail of the population.

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Thirty thousand-ass that I am!

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The Devil is an Ass.

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You ought to have seen how sweet she was on me; what an ass I am."

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A man who would draw a monstrous cow, must first know what a cow commonly is; or how can he tell that to give her an ass's head or an elephant's tusk will make her monstrous.

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How did the prophets circumstantially prophesy of Christ's birth, his death, his burial, of their giving him gall and vinegar, of their parting his raiment and piercing his hands and feet, of his riding on an ass also.

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Courtenay Ivor, I always knew you were an ass, but I didn't ever know you were quite such a born idiot of a fellow as that.

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Oh, little ass, little dolt, little maniac, fit only for a madhouse, talking to iron figures and taking them for real men!

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"Then thou wert an ass!" said his father.

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That ass, Blossom, of the Higginsville Thunderbolt and Battle Cry of Freedom, is down here again sponging at the Van Buren.

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Now, according to this view of the case, Jones married a spinster, who was a widow at the same time and another man's wife at the same time, and yet who had no husband and never had one, and never had any intention of getting married, and therefore, of course, never had been married; and by the same reasoning you are a bachelor, because you have never been any one's husband; and a married man, because you have a wife living; and to all intents and purposes a widower, because you have been deprived of that wife; and a consummate ass for going off to Benicia in the first place, while things were so mixed.

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What did that driveling ass of a Schuyler stand in the wake of a runaway horse for, with his shouting and gesticulating, if he wanted to stop him?

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Think how you would feel if you had made such an ass of yourself."

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What does that Arkansas ass know about it?

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He even said I was an ass.

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The Secretary of the Treasury said: "This is the meddlesome ass that came to recommend me to put poetry and conundrums in my report, as if it were an almanac."

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"Before anybody could get off an opinion in the case the innocent old ass at the piano struck up: "Come rise up, William Ri-i-ley, And go along with me!

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Nobody but an ass would take a brassie.

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She's an awful ass, don't you think, Tommy?"

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He'll be enough of a damned ass to try to kiss her before all these people, too."

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"Miss Courtenay, I'm--I'm a confounded ass for not thinking of your breakfast.

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"Is it possible that you have never had the pleasure of being transformed into a perfect ass by the magic of a perfect woman, Mr. Barnes?

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"You have the jewels and--" "Don't be an ass," snapped Sprouse.

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"I never saw such a jolly ass as you are.

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I hope, Miss Carew, that you'll excuse me for making such an ass of myself.

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What little time you have over you will employ in wondering why you came to West Africa, and why, after having reached this point of folly, you need have gone and painted the lily and adorned the rose, by being such a colossal ass as to come fooling about in mangrove swamps.

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Hang it all, I'm an ass to act like this!

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I wish Clara hadn't made herself such an ass;" and then the boy went away, and talked kindly over the matter to his poor sister.

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What a fool I am,--what an ass, that by this time I have not learned to bear it!"

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Is it for the purpose of insinuating the imbecility of slumber that the Romans decorated the heads of their beds with the head of an ass?

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THE HUSBAND.--My dear, that ass of a Prosper Magnan is fighting a duel with M. de Fontanges, on account of an Opera singer.--But what is the matter with you?

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Mitchell LIKE MOUNTAINS THE BILLOWS SWELL ... Donn P. Crane THE SHIP WAS JAMMED BETWEEN HIGH ROCKS ... J. Allen St. John THEY MADE A RAFT OF CASKS ... J. Allen St. John THE AGOUTI ... J. Allen St. John THE MONKEYS THREW DOWN COCONUTS ... J. Allen St. John THE SHEEP FLOATED FAMOUSLY ... J. Allen St. John FALCONHURST ... J. Allen St. John CHEST OF TREASURE ... J. Allen St. John OVERTURNING THE TURTLE ... J. Allen St. John PENGUINS ... J. Allen St. John CATCHING THE WILD ASS ... J. Allen St. John FLAMINGOS ... J. Allen St. John I ADVANCED WITH A LONG POLE ... J. Allen St. John JACK AND THE OSTRICH ... J. Allen St. John THE WALRUS ... J. Allen St. John LATEST NEWS BY PIGEON POST ... J. Allen St. John HIPPOPOTAMUS ... J. Allen St. John ALBATROSS ... J. Allen St. John PEARL BAY ... J. Allen St. John WE BROUGHT UP WITHIN HAIL ... J. Allen St. John THE SLAVE OF THE LAMP ... Arthur Henderson ALADDIN DESCENDED THE STEPS ... Arthur Henderson "GENIE, BUILD ME A PALACE" ... Arthur Henderson "NEW LAMPS FOR OLD" ... Arthur Henderson ALADDIN SALUTED THE PRINCESS JOYFULLY ... Arthur Henderson THE VALLEY WAS STREWED WITH DIAMONDS ... Arthur Henderson THE ROC FLEW AWAY WITH SINBAD (Halftone) ... Arthur Henderson BARBARA FRIETCHIE ... Iris Weddell White GRENDEL COULD NOT BREAK THAT GRIP OF STEEL ... Arthur Henderson BEOWULF ON HIS NOBLE STEED ... Arthur Henderson SHE LOOKED UPON THE GOD OF LOVE ... Iris Weddell White PSYCHE AND CHARON ... Iris Weddell White CUPID SPIED PSYCHE SLEEPING ... Iris Weddell White PEOPLE CALL ME THE PIED PIPER ... Iris Weddell White GREAT RATS, SMALL RATS ... Herbert N. Rudeen A WONDERFUL PORTAL OPENED WIDE ... Iris Weddell White THEY HAD BECOME BETROTHED ... Donn P. Crane FRITHIOF BEHELD THE TWO WITCHES ... Donn P. Crane SIEGFRIED AND THE DRAGON ... Louis Grell A GREAT CASTLE TOWERED ABOVE THE CLIFFS ... Louis Grell THE DEATH OF SIEGFRIED ... Louis Grell LOCHINVAR ... Arthur Henderson TUMBLED HIM INTO THE BROOK ... Jessie Arms THE STRANGER OVERTHROWS ROBIN HOOD ... Jessie Arms ROBIN HOOD AND THE WIDOW ... Jessie Arms ROBIN HOOD AND THE SHERIFF ... Jessie Arms ROBIN HOOD PLAYS HARPER ... Jessie Arms IN THE GREENWOOD ... Jessie Arms GANELON PICKS UP CHARLEMAGNE'S GLOVE ... Louis Grell WHERESOEVER HE PLANTED HIS FOOT, THERE HE STAYED ... Jan in Grell ROLAND FEEBLY WINDED HIS HORN ... Louis Grell [Illustration: A GREAT BIG YELLOW ONE] JOHN'S PUMPKIN By MRS ARCHIBALD Last spring I found a pumpkin seed, And thought that I would go And plant it in a secret place, That no one else would know, And watch all summer long to see It grow, and grow, and grow, And maybe raise a pumpkin for A Jack-a-lantern show.

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The cow and ass gave us more trouble than did the others, as for them we required something more buoyant than the mere cork; we at last found some empty casks and fastened two to each animal by thongs passed under its belly.

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To our surprise, however, our friend was not alone; behind him trotted another animal, an ass no doubt, but slim and graceful as a horse.

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[Footnote: An onager is a wild ass] Creep back to Falconhurst and bring me a piece of cord-- quietly now!"

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[Illustration: CATCHING THE WILD ASS] While he was gone, I cut a bamboo and split it halfway down to form a pair of pincers, which I knew would be of use to me should I get near the animal.

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Quoth bold Robin Hood, "Thou dost prate like an ass, For were I to bend my bow, I could send a dart quite thro' thy proud heart, Before thou couldst strike me one blow."

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"About the ass," we are told, "Don Quixote hesitated a little, trying whether he could call to mind any knight-errant taking with him an esquire mounted on ass-back; but no instance occurred to his memory."

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La Mancha as the knight's country and scene of his chivalries is of a piece with the pasteboard helmet, the farm-labourer on ass-back for a squire, knighthood conferred by a rascally ventero, convicts taken for victims of oppression, and the rest of the incongruities between Don Quixote's world and the world he lived in, between things as he saw them and things as they were.

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"Come, come, you show ill-breeding, sir, I ween; 'T is like an ass your master thus to scorn."

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R. He is an ass, will die an ass, an ass was born; Why, he's in love; what's what's plainer to be seen?"

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The other said he would, and that he meant to take also a very good ass he had, as he was not much given to going on foot.

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About the ass, Don Quixote hesitated a little, trying whether he could call to mind any knight-errant taking with him an esquire mounted on ass-back, but no instance occurred to his memory.

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And moreover I shall not hold it any dishonour to be so mounted, for I remember having read how the good old Silenus, the tutor and instructor of the gay god of laughter, when he entered the city of the hundred gates, went very contentedly mounted on a handsome ass."

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"That I can well understand," answered Sancho; "but where shall we put this ass where we may be sure to find him after the fray is over?

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At any rate, do this much, I beg of thee, Sancho, to undeceive thyself, and see that what I say is true; mount thy ass and follow them quietly, and thou shalt see that when they have gone some little distance from this they will return to their original shape and, ceasing to be sheep, become men in all respects as I described them to thee at first.

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"What I see and make out," answered Sancho, "is only a man on a grey ass like my own, who has something that shines on his head."

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He rode upon a grey ass, as Sancho said, and this was what made it seem to Don Quixote to be a dapple-grey steed and a knight and a golden helmet; for everything he saw he made to fall in with his crazy chivalry and ill-errant notions; and when he saw the poor knight draw near, without entering into any parley with him, at Rocinante's top speed he bore down upon him with the pike pointed low, fully determined to run him through and through, and as he reached him, without checking the fury of his charge, he cried to him: "Defend thyself, miserable being, or yield me of thine own accord that which is so reasonably my due."

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But putting that aside, will your worship tell me what are we to do with this dapple-grey steed that looks like a grey ass, which that Martino that your worship overthrew has left deserted here?

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"I have never been in the habit," said Don Quixote, "of taking spoil of those whom I vanquish, nor is it the practice of chivalry to take away their horses and leave them to go on foot, unless indeed it be that the victor have lost his own in the combat, in which case it is lawful to take that of the vanquished as a thing won in lawful war; therefore, Sancho, leave this horse, or ass, or whatever thou wilt have it to be; for when its owner sees us gone hence he will come back for it."

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"God knows I should like to take it," returned Sancho, "or at least to change it for my own, which does not seem to me as good a one: verily the laws of chivalry are strict, since they cannot be stretched to let one ass be changed for another; I should like to know if I might at least change trappings."

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That night they reached the very heart of the Sierra Morena, where it seemed prudent to Sancho to pass the night and even some days, at least as many as the stores he carried might last, and so they encamped between two rocks and among some cork trees; but fatal destiny, which, according to the opinion of those who have not the light of the true faith, directs, arranges, and settles everything in its own way, so ordered it that Gines de Pasamonte, the famous knave and thief who by the virtue and madness of Don Quixote had been released from the chain, driven by fear of the Holy Brotherhood, which he had good reason to dread, resolved to take hiding in the mountains; and his fate and fear led him to the same spot to which Don Quixote and Sancho Panza had been led by theirs, just in time to recognise them and leave them to fall asleep: and as the wicked are always ungrateful, and necessity leads to evildoing, and immediate advantage overcomes all considerations of the future, Gines, who was neither grateful nor well-principled, made up his mind to steal Sancho Panza's ass, not troubling himself about Rocinante, as being a prize that was no good either to pledge or sell.

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Don Quixote, when he heard the lament and learned the cause, consoled Sancho with the best arguments he could, entreating him to be patient, and promising to give him a letter of exchange ordering three out of five ass-colts that he had at home to be given to him.

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WHICH TREATS OF THE STRANGE THINGS THAT HAPPENED TO THE STOUT KNIGHT OF LA MANCHA IN THE SIERRA MORENA, AND OF HIS IMITATION OF THE PENANCE OF BELTENEBROS Don Quixote took leave of the goatherd, and once more mounting Rocinante bade Sancho follow him, which he having no ass, did very discontentedly.

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for God's sake hold thy tongue, Sancho, and henceforward keep to prodding thy ass and don't meddle in what does not concern thee; and understand with all thy five senses that everything I have done, am doing, or shall do, is well founded on reason and in conformity with the rules of chivalry, for I understand them better than all the world that profess them."

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"That is all very well," said Sancho, "but the order must needs be signed, and if it is copied they will say the signature is false, and I shall be left without ass-colts."

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"I say that your worship is entirely right," said Sancho, "and that I am an ass.

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But I know not how the name of ass came into my mouth, for a rope is not to be mentioned in the house of him who has been hanged; but now for the letter, and then, God be with you, I am off."

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"Now then," said Sancho, "let your worship put the order for the three ass-colts on the other side, and sign it very plainly, that they may recognise it at first sight."

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"With all my heart," said Don Quixote, and as he had written it he read it to this effect: "Mistress Niece,-By this first of ass-colts please pay to Sancho Panza, my squire, three of the five I left at home in your charge: said three ass-colts to be paid and delivered for the same number received here in hand, which upon this and upon his receipt shall be duly paid.

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"What should happen me?" replied Sancho, "but to have lost from one hand to the other, in a moment, three ass-colts, each of them like a castle?"

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"I have lost the note-book," said Sancho, "that contained the letter to Dulcinea, and an order signed by my master in which he directed his niece to give me three ass-colts out of four or five he had at home;" and he then told them about the loss of Dapple.

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While this was going on they saw coming along the road they were following a man mounted on an ass, who when he came close seemed to be a gipsy; but Sancho Panza, whose eyes and heart were there wherever he saw asses, no sooner beheld the man than he knew him to be Gines de Pasamonte; and by the thread of the gipsy he got at the ball, his ass, for it was, in fact, Dapple that carried Pasamonte, who to escape recognition and to sell the ass had disguised himself as a gipsy, being able to speak the gipsy language, and many more, as well as if they were his own.

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They all came up and congratulated him on having found Dapple, Don Quixote especially, who told him that notwithstanding this he would not cancel the order for the three ass-colts, for which Sancho thanked him.

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"I measured in this way," said Sancho; "going to help her to put a sack of wheat on the back of an ass, we came so close together that I could see she stood more than a good palm over me."

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"That must have been it," said Sancho, "for indeed Rocinante went like a gipsy's ass with quicksilver in his ears."

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They left him to sleep, and came out to the gate of the inn to console Sancho Panza on not having found the head of the giant; but much more work had they to appease the landlord, who was furious at the sudden death of his wine-skins; and said the landlady half scolding, half crying, "At an evil moment and in an unlucky hour he came into my house, this knight-errant-would that I had never set eyes on him, for dear he has cost me; the last time he went off with the overnight score against him for supper, bed, straw, and barley, for himself and his squire and a hack and an ass, saying he was a knight adventurer-God send unlucky adventures to him and all the adventurers in the world-and therefore not bound to pay anything, for it was so settled by the knight-errantry tariff: and then, all because of him, came the other gentleman and carried off my tail, and gives it back more than two cuartillos the worse, all stripped of its hair, so that it is no use for my husband's purpose; and then, for a finishing touch to all, to burst my wine-skins and spill my wine!

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Behind him, mounted upon an ass, there came a woman dressed in Moorish fashion, with her face veiled and a scarf on her head, and wearing a little brocaded cap, and a mantle that covered her from her shoulders to her feet.

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Maritornes felt sure that Don Quixote would present the hand she had asked, and making up her mind what to do, she got down from the hole and went into the stable, where she took the halter of Sancho Panza's ass, and in all haste returned to the hole, just as Don Quixote had planted himself standing on Rocinante's saddle in order to reach the grated window where he supposed the lovelorn damsel to be; and giving her his hand, he said, "Lady, take this hand, or rather this scourge of the evil-doers of the earth; take, I say, this hand which no other hand of woman has ever touched, not even hers who has complete possession of my entire body.

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All laughed to see Don Fernando going from one to another collecting the votes, and whispering to them to give him their private opinion whether the treasure over which there had been so much fighting was a pack-saddle or a caparison; but after he had taken the votes of those who knew Don Quixote, he said aloud, "The fact is, my good fellow, that I am tired collecting such a number of opinions, for I find that there is not one of whom I ask what I desire to know, who does not tell me that it is absurd to say that this is the pack-saddle of an ass, and not the caparison of a horse, nay, of a thoroughbred horse; so you must submit, for, in spite of you and your ass, this is a caparison and no pack-saddle, and you have stated and proved your case very badly."

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"It might easily be a she-ass's," observed the curate.

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