TOO CLEVER BY HALF.
Reading edition
Presently, as they went along, the mischievous lazarillo led him through a troop of children, running about at their play: one of them, darting between the legs of the blind man, tripped him up. “You young rascal!” exclaimed the provoked beggar; “why didn’t you take better care where you led me?”
“If you were so clever at smelling the sprat,
How came it you couldn’t, too, smell out the brat?”
cried the lazarillo, running off to escape a second drubbing.