offenders; and he said so to his master, and entreated him to leave

the place at once, and go into hiding in the sierra that was close by.

"That is all very well," said Don Quixote, "but I know what must

be done now;" and calling together all the galley slaves, who were now

running riot, and had stripped the commissary to the skin, he

collected them round him to hear what he had to say, and addressed

them as follows: "To be grateful for benefits received is the part

of persons of good birth, and one of the sins most offensive to God is