They were all eager to know what the affair of the blanket was, and the landlord gave them a minute account of Sancho's flights, at which they laughed not a little, and at which Sancho would have been no less out of countenance had not his master once more assured him it was all enchantment. For all that his simplicity never reached so high a pitch that he could persuade himself it was not the plain and simple truth, without any deception whatever about it, that he had been blanketed by beings of flesh and blood, and not by visionary and imaginary phantoms, as his master believed and protested.
Desearon saber todos qué era aquello de la manta, y el ventero lo contó, punto por punto: la volatería de Sancho Panza, de que no poco se rieron todos; y de que no menos se corriera Sancho, si de nuevo no le asegurara su amo que era encantamento; puesto que jamás llegó la sandez de Sancho a tanto, que creyese no ser verdad pura y averiguada, sin mezcla de engaño alguno, lo de haber sido manteado por personas de carne y hueso, y no por fantasmas soñadas ni imaginadas, como su señor lo creía y lo afirmaba.