"It is true," answered Pangloss, "you saw me hanged, though I ought properly to have been burned; but you may remember, that it rained extremely hard when they were going to roast me. The storm was so violent that they found it impossible to light the fire; so they hanged me because they could do no better. A surgeon purchased my body, carried it home, and prepared to dissect me.
Verdad es, dixo Panglós, que me viste ahorcar; iban á quemarme, pero ya te acuerdas que llovia á chaparrones quando me habian de echar á la hoguera, y que no fué posible encender el fuego; así que me ahorcáron, sin exemplar, no pudiendo mas: y un cirujano que compró mi cuerpo, me llevó á su casa, y me disecó.