Publisher's Synopsis
Paseandose dos caballeros estudiantes por las riberas de Tormes, hallaron en ellas, debajo de un arbol durmiendo, a un muchacho de hasta edad de once anos, vestido como labrador. Mandaron a un criado que le despertase; desperto y preguntaronle de adonde era y que hacia durmiendo en aquella soledad. A lo cual el muchacho respondio que el nombre de su tierra se le habia olvidado, y que iba a la ciudad de Salamanca a buscar un amo a quien servir, por solo que le diese estudio. Preguntaronle si sabia leer; respondio que si, y escribir tambien. Two students were one day passing along the banks of the Tormes, when they found a boy, about eleven years old, dressed as a labourer, and sleeping under a tree. They sent a servant to wake him, and when he had well opened his eyes, they asked him whence he came, and what he was doing, to be lying asleep and defenceless in that lonely place. The boy replied, that he had forgotten the name of his birthplace, but was going to Salamanca, there to seek a master whom he might serve, on condition of being permitted and aided to pursue his studies.
