Sancho alone, deserting Dapple at the sight of the mighty beast, took to his heels as hard as he could and strove in vain to mount a tall oak. As he was clinging to a branch, however, half-way up in his struggle to reach the top, the bough, such was his ill-luck and hard fate, gave way, and caught in his fall by a broken limb of the oak, he hung suspended in the air unable to reach the ground.
Sólo Sancho, en viendo al valiente animal, desamparó al rucio y dio a correr cuanto pudo, y, procurando subirse sobre una alta encina, no fue posible; antes, estando ya a la mitad dél, asido de una rama, pugnando subir a la cima, fue tan corto de ventura y tan desgraciado, que se desgajó la rama, y, al venir al suelo, se quedó en el aire, asido de un gancho de la encina, sin poder llegar al suelo.