" when his companion suggests they attack windmills.
This character deduces that a man claiming to have paid back a loan is actually hiding the money in his cane because he hands the cane to his creditor, swears an oath, and then takes the cane back again. This character cuts short a story about a shepherdess and a goatherd because his audience cannot keep track of the number of goats. In one scene, this man agrees to receive 3,300 lashes on his buttocks because the wizard Merlin tells him that it is the only way to make a cursed woman regain her beauty. This man frequently complains of an incident in which a group of men had (*) tossed him in the air with a blanket as punishment for his refusal to pay for lodging at an inn on behalf of his master. This illiterate man is offered the fictional island of Barataria and must dictate the letters that he sends to his wife Teresa. This man asks, "What giants?" when his companion suggests they attack windmills. For 10 points, name this proverb-quoting, pot-bellied peasant who serves as Don Quixote's squire. 
This character deduces that a man claiming to have paid back a loan is actually hiding the money in his cane because he hands the cane to his creditor, swears an oath, and then takes the cane back again.
Sancho Panza [accept either name]