Excerpt from Don Q. In the Sierra In the ventas and the little wayside wineshops, men's mouths were filled with his praise; one heard but laments for the lost friend of the poor - Ahi, Dios mio, when the eagle was up above, there were no hawks, now there are many hawks and no eagle. This grew into a saying. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.