near it for fear of some ill-luck or being charged with theft, for the

devil is crafty, and things rise up under one's feet to make one

fall without knowing why or wherefore."

"That's exactly what I say," said Sancho; "I found it too, and I

would not go within a stone's throw of it; there I left it, and

there it lies just as it was, for I don't want a dog with a bell."

"Tell me, good man," said Don Quixote, "do you know who is the owner

"All I can tell you," said the goatherd, "is that about six months