"He was called Ruy Perez de Viedma," replied the curate, "and he was born in a village in the mountains of Leon; and he mentioned a circumstance connected with his father and his brothers which, had it not been told me by so truthful a man as he was, I should have set down as one of those fables the old women tell over the fire in winter; for he said his father had divided his property among his three sons and had addressed words of advice to them sounder than any of Cato's.
-Llamábase -respondió el cura- Ruy Pérez de Viedma, y era natural de un lugar de las montañas de León, el cual me contó un caso que a su padre con sus hermanos le había sucedido, que, a no contármelo un hombre tan verdadero como él, lo tuviera por conseja de aquellas que las viejas cuentan el invierno al fuego. Porque me dijo que su padre había dividido su hacienda entre tres hijos que tenía, y les había dado ciertos consejos, mejores que los de Catón.