ef
salad with onions, and some boiled calves' feet rather far gone.

At this he fell to with greater relish than if they had given him
francolins from Milan, pheasants from Rome, veal from Sorrento,
partridges from Moron, or geese from Lavajos; and turning to the
doctor at supper he said to him:--"Look here, senor doctor, for the
future don't trouble yourself about giving me dainty things or choice
dishes to eat, for it will be only taking my stomach off its hinges:
it is accustomed to goat, cow, bacon, hung beef, turnips and onions;
and if by any chance it is given these palace dishes, it receives them
squeamishly, and sometimes with loathing. What the head carver had
best do is to serve me with what they call ollas-podridas (and the
rottener they are the better they smell); and he can put whatever he
likes into them, so long as it is good to eat, and I'll be obliged to
him, and will requite him some day. But let nobody play pranks on me,
for either we are or we are not; let us live and eat in peace and
good-fellowship; for when God sends the dawn, he sends it for all. I
mean to govern this island without giving up a right or taking a
bribe: let every one keep his eye open and look out for the arrow; for
I can tell them 'the Devil's in Cantillana,' and if they drive me to
it they'll see something that will astonish them. Nay! make yourself
honey and the flies will eat you."

"Of a truth, senor governor," said the carver, "your worship is in the
right of it in everything you have said; and I promise you in the name
of all the inhabitants of this island that they will serve your
worship with all zeal, affection, and good-will, for the mild kind of
government you have given a sample of to begin with, leaves them no
ground for doing or thinking anything to your worship's disadvantage."

"That I believe," said Sancho; "and they would be great fools if they
did or thought otherwise; once more I say, see to my feeding and my
Dapple's, for that is the great point and what is most to the purpose;
and when the hour comes let us go the rounds: for it is my intention
to purge this island of all manner of uncleanness and of all idle
good-for-nothing vagabonds; for I would have you know, my friends,
that lazy idlers are the same thing in a State as the drones in a
hive, and eat up the honey the industrious bees make. I mean to
protect the husbandman, to preserve to the gentleman his privileges,
to reward the virtuous, and above a