THE translator of this history, when he comes to write this fifth

chapter, says that he considers it apocryphal, because in it Sancho

Panza speaks in a style unlike that which might have been expected

from his limited intelligence, and says things so subtle that he

does not think it possible he could have conceived them; however,

desirous of doing what his task imposed upon him, he was unwilling

to leave it untranslated, and therefore he went on to say:

Sancho came home in such glee and spirits that his wife noticed