“ No, truly,” said the secretary, “and the fellow has made his point.”
“ So then,” said Sancho, “it would be entirely of your own choice you would keep from sleeping; not in opposition to my will?”
“ No, señor,” said the youth, “certainly not.”
“ Well then, go, and God be with you,” said Sancho; “be off home to sleep, and God give you sound sleep, for I don’t want to rob you of it; but for the future, let me advise you don’t joke with the authorities, because you may come across some one who will bring down the joke on your own skull.”
The young man went his way, and the governor continued his round, and shortly afterwards two tipstaffs came up with a man in custody, and said, “Señor governor, this person, who seems to be a man, is not so, but a woman, and not an ill-favoured one,
