This graceful lass, then, helped the young girl, and the two made up a very bad bed for Don Quixote in a garret that showed evident signs of having formerly served for many years as a straw-loft, in which there was also quartered a carrier whose bed was placed a little beyond our Don Quixote's, and, though only made of the pack-saddles and cloths of his mules, had much the advantage of it, as Don Quixote's consisted simply of four rough boards on two not very even trestles, a mattress, that for thinness might have passed for a quilt, full of pellets which, were they not seen through the rents to be wool, would to the touch have seemed pebbles in hardness, two sheets made of buckler leather, and a coverlet the threads of which anyone that chose might have counted without missing one in the reckoning.
En la cual también alojaba un arriero, que tenía su cama hecha un poco más allá de la de nuestro don Quijote. Y, aunque era de las enjalmas y mantas de sus machos, hacía mucha ventaja a la de don Quijote, que sólo contenía cuatro mal lisas tablas, sobre dos no muy iguales bancos, y un colchón que en lo sutil parecía colcha, lleno de bodoques, que, a no mostrar que eran de lana por algunas roturas, al tiento, en la dureza, semejaban de guijarro, y dos sábanas hechas de cuero de adarga, y una frazada, cuyos hilos, si se quisieran contar, no se perdiera uno solo de la cuenta.