made us forget the badness of the roads and the poverty of the inns.
"Don Antonio (thus we will call him) was one of the strangest human beings nature has produced. He had a pretty good share of understanding, and not little experience, but was of a most singular disposition. Although he knew that we had been eye witnesses of, and concerned in, almost all engagements, in which he displayed very little of the hero, yet he invented a number of adventures, in which he pretended to have acted a principal part, and endeavoured to persuade us of his veracity by a semblance of the greatest candour, as well as by numberless oaths.
"Well invented!" we frequently used to exclaim, "though it is not true!" However, he pledged his honour, and, what was still more important, his tried courage, for the truth of his tale. We resolved, therefore, unanimously, to try,on
