The puppet play, "Melisandra's Deliverance," is narrated by a young boy who interprets the action of the puppets and identifies the characters. At the point where the brave knight, Don Gayferos, gallops off with his wife, Melisandra, whom he has just freed from cruel imprisonment, and an angry horde of armed Moors chase him, Don Quixote decides he must aid the brave Christians. Swinging his sword, he hacks at all the Moorish puppets until they are completely dismembered. He cuts the strings and wires in his fury and barely misses slicing the head of the puppeteer himself. When Maestro Pedro laments his losses, Don Quixote slowly realizes his mistake and, cursing the necromancers for clouding his perspective, pays handsomely for each ruined puppet.
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