- He says the "grand inquisitor" came to his room today, but he hid under a chair. The man calls him by his real name first, but he doesn't get out.
- The man then says "Ferdinand VIII, the king of Spain," but he thinks it's a trick and still doesn't get out. He gets beaten anyway.
- Poprishchin writes that he learned that every rooster has his Spain, and it is under his feathers.