his departure, Rocinante began to neigh, and Dapple to sigh, which, by

both knight and squire, was accepted as a good sign and a very happy

omen; though, if the truth is to be told, the sighs and brays of

Dapple were louder than the neighings of the hack, from which Sancho

inferred that his good fortune was to exceed and overtop that of his

master, building, perhaps, upon some judicial astrology that he may

have known, though the history says nothing about it; all that can

be said is, that when he stumbled or fell, he was heard to say he