Out of the frying-pan into the fire 31 Nothing to eat in the house 31 Lazaro sinking into the silent tomb 32 Stinginess of the clergyman 33 Lazaro longs for the funeral feasts 33 An angel in form of a locksmith 35 Lazaro happy for a time 35 The priest counts the loaves 36 It was the rats 37 Rat-hole boarded up 38 Rat-hole reappears 41 Lazaro undid the repairs at night 41 Rat-trap adds cheese to Lazaro’s meal 42 It must be a snake 42 The key turns traitor 43 Lazaro half killed, and shown the door 44 THIRD MASTER HOW LAZARO TOOK SERVICE WITH A GENTLEMAN, AND WHAT HAPPENED TO HIM Lazaro reaches Toledo and seeks for a master 47 He enters the service of an esquire 48 Taken to the esquire’s house 51 Nothing to eat in the house 51 Trouble ahead about food 52 Shares his bread with his master 53 Philosophical views of starvation 55 A wretched night 55 The esquire’s outward appearance 56 Secrets under the esquire’s cloak 59 Lazaro goes for water. What he sees 60 Lazaro waits for his master and food 61 Successful begging expedition 61 What touches the esquire’s honour 65 The esquire longs to share with Lazaro 65 Lazaro’s kindness and tact 66 Provides a supper for his master 67 Examines the esquire’s clothes 68 Kindly feeling for his master 68 Begging prohibited 69 Kept alive by shop-girls 69 Misery and starvation 70 The esquire bemoans his fate 70 Lazaro’s terror at the dead body coming 71 Lazaro bars the door 72 Door unbarred 73