with both hands and plucked away half of it, and then, as quick as

he could and without stopping, gave himself half a dozen cuffs on

the face and nose till they were bathed in blood.

Seeing this, the curate and the barber asked him what had happened

him that he gave himself such rough treatment.

"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

"How is that?" said the barber.