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one of the redies which the curate and the barber idiatelyapplied to their friend&039;s dirder was to wall up and plaster the roowhere the books were, that when he got up he should not fd the（possibly the cae beg reoved the effect ight cease）， and theyight say that a agician had carried the off, roo and all; and thiswas done with all despatch o days later don ixote got up, and thefirst thg he did was to go and look at his books, and not fdgthe roo where he had left it, he wandered fro side to side lookgfor it he ca to the place where the door ed to be, and tried iith his hands, and turned and isted his eyes every directionwithout sayg a word; but after a good while he asked his hoekeeperwhereabouts was the roo that held his books

the hoekeeper, who had been already well structed what 射was to answer, said, &ot;what roo or what nothg is it that yourworship is lookg for? there are neither roo nor books this hoenow, for the devil hiself has carried all away&ot;

&ot;it was not the devil,&ot; said the niece, &ot;but a agician who caon a cloud one night after the day your worship left this, anddiuntg fro a serpent that he rode he entered the roo, andwhat he did there i know not, but after a little while he ade off,flyg through the roof, and left the hoe full of ke; and when wewent to see what he had done we saw neither book nor roo: but wereber very well, the hoekeeper and i, that on leavg, the oldviln said a loud voice that, for a private grud he