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he 射epsks a great heap of parched arns, and withthe they put down a half cheese harder than if it had been ade ofortar all this while the horn was not idle, for it went round nstantly, now full, now epty, like the bucket of a water-wheel,that it on draed one of the o e-sks that were sighhen don ixote had ite appeased his appetite he took up ahandful of the arns, and nteplatg the attentively deliveredhiself what this fashion:

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