Rambles in sunny Spain . f the adventures of that redoubtable knight of Spanish romance,Don Quixote de la Mancha. It is a flat country, with not much tointerest the traveller, and one might be pardoned for passing it bywithout a second glance. Only seven miles distant is the Venta deOuesada, where Quixote was knighted; and not far off the Cavesof Montesinos, where the knight had his most wonderful adventureswith the enchanted ones. The place where the noble knight didpenance is in the sierras, to the left of the Venta de Cardenas, andthe veritable windmills with which Don Quixote had his despe
Rambles in sunny Spain . f the adventures of that redoubtable knight of Spanish romance,Don Quixote de la Mancha. It is a flat country, with not much tointerest the traveller, and one might be pardoned for passing it bywithout a second glance. Only seven miles distant is the Venta deOuesada, where Quixote was knighted; and not far off the Cavesof Montesinos, where the knight had his most wonderful adventureswith the enchanted ones. The place where the noble knight didpenance is in the sierras, to the left of the Venta de Cardenas, andthe veritable windmills with which Don Quixote had his desperateencounter may be seen to the right of the station of Campo de Crip-tana, on the road to Valencia. As for Toboso, the home of the peerless Dulcinea del Toboso, isit not well known, and docs it not lie fifteen miles from the impor-tant station of Alazar de San Juan, also on the route from Madridto Valencia ? Dear old Quixote ! For a month past we had beenreading ourselves to sleep with his adventures. Every night after. DON QUIXOTE. DON QUIXOTES COUNTRY, AND CORDOVA. 139 lighting the candles and placing them within reach on the stand wepopped into bed with the noble Don in our hands, and proceededto follow him and the unctuous Sancho Panza. Several nights wehad fallen asleep in the midst of some adventure, only to continueit in our dreams ; and to awake with some direful exploit in pro-gress, only to find our candles sputtering, and the avani-couriers ofdawn strusfelins: into our room. We should like to have seen hisadventure with the lions, and to have been present when he set freethe galley slaves. We have in our minds eye yet that man ofgoodly aspect, only that his eyes looked at each other, the culpritwho was so closely guarded and double-ironed. As for SanchoPanza, with his sturdy figure, his beloved dapple, and his stringsof proverbs, we doubt not we have seen him a dozen times ploddingalong the dusty roads of the plains, only that we have not beennear enough to hear hi
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