Adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha Author:Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: and weight of arms cannot be sustained by the body unless the interior be supplied with aliments." For the benefit of the cool air, they placed the table at the ... more »door of the inn, and the landlord produced some of his ill-soaked and worse-cooked bacallao, with bread as foul and black as the knight's armor: but it was a spectacle highly risible to see him eat; for his hands being engaged in holding his helmet on and raising the beaver, he could not feed himself, therefore one of the ladies performed that office for him ; but to drink would have been utterly impossible, had not the innkeeper bored a reed, and, placing one end into his mouth, at the other poured in the wine; and all this he patiently endured rather than cut the lacings of his helmet. In the meantime there came to the inn a sow-doctor, who as soon as he arrived, blew his pipe of reeds four or five times, which finally convinced Don Quixote that he was now in some famous castle, where he was regaled with music; that the poor John was trout, the bread of the purest white, the strolling wenches ladies of distinction, and the inn-keeper governor of the castle; consequently he remained satisfied with his enterprise and first sally, though it troubled him to reflect that he was not yet a knight, feeling persuaded that he could not lawfully engage in any adventure until he had been invested with the order of knighthood. CHAPTER III. IN WHICH IS RELATED THE PLEASANT METHOD DON QUIXOTfc TOOK TO BE DUBBED A KNIGHT. Agitated by this idea, he abruptly finished his scanty sup per, called the innkeeper, and, shutting himself up with him in the stable, he fell on his knees before him, and said, " Never will I arise from this place, valorous knight, until your courtesy shall vouchsafe to grant a boon which it is my intentio...« less