The Pleasant Discourse Between Don Quixote and His Squire Continued, with Other Adventures.
Sancho continues to answer the persistent questions of Don Quixote regarding the appearance, dress, activities, and remarks of Dulcinea when she received the letter. Sancho is exceedingly relieved when the curate calls for a rest and refreshment at a roadside fountain. While they are eating, a youth stops before the knight. "Do you not remember poor Andrew," he says, "whom you had caused to be untied from a tree?" Don Quixote loudly recounts his valor in the affair and charges the boy to tell everyone the story and its successful aftermath. "Yes, my master repaid me," sadly and bitterly answers the youth. "No sooner had you gone, than he lashed me to the tree and gave me so many cuts with the strap that I have been in a hospital ever since. Had you not meddled and so insulted my master, my poor back would not have received the brunt of his anger." The company can hardly suppress laughter, and poor Andrew continues on his way, hungrily seizing the crust of bread and slice of cheese that Sancho offers him.
