=71= 14 =gastar=:  ‘wear’ (of clothes, with something of humorous suggestion of extravagance).

=71= 21 =vete a acostar=:  K. 207; C. 207, 4.

=71= 28 =no te fies=:  answering Pepe’s words in lines 15-16.

=72= 5 =No hay que darle vueltas=:  refers to the succeeding statement.

=72= 8 =si no=:  cf. n. on p. 64, l. 1.

=72= 9 =Emperador=:  i.e.  Charles V.—­=Felipe=:  i.e.  Philip II.

=72= 24 =Bustamante=:  imaginary author; perhaps a pun on the thought “lover (amante) of tombs (in Latin, busta).”

=73= 10 =de centinela=:  R. 1440, m; K. 631, f.

=73= 14 =retamas=:  ‘Spanish brooms’ (bot. Spartium junceum).

=73= 16 =D.  Fulano ...  D. Perencejo=:  R. 238; K. 306; C. 196, 4.

=73= 20 =monte=:  a game.

=74= 7 =concediera=:  cf. n. on p. 41, l. 13.

=74= 13 =explorar=:  cf. p. 21, l. 31.  The Madrid edition has here =explotar=, ‘exploit,’ which makes sense, but a less satisfactory sense.

=75= 6 =como no sea=:  ‘unless it be.’

=75= 9 =Nicolasito Hernandez=:  the tall-hatted money-lender of p. 92.  The Madrid edition reads =Nicolasita= here.

=75= 21 =A que=:  elliptical phrase, derived from expressions like =apuesto a que=, ‘I wager that.’

=75= 22 =dejaron bizcos=:  ‘made cross-eyed’ (with astonishment and envy).  Since the London Exhibition of 1862 there had been those of Paris, 1867, and Vienna, 1873.  By not mentioning these the Orbajosans of 1875 practically confess that they had never been able to repeat their success of thirteen years ago.

=76= 8 =que=:  the double syntax of this word, as accusative with =celebro= and nominative with =fue=, is a grammatical fault.

=76= 26 =fulminante=:  medical men in our country use “fulminant,” “fulminating,” or “foudroyant,” in the same sense.

=76= 30 =regular porcion=:  ‘a good big lot’ (colloq.).

=76= 31 =fuese=:  from =ir=, not from =ser=.  Cf.  R. 523, rem. and 525; K. 734; C. 275.

=77= 6 =a la pena de su martirio=:  like Prometheus to his cliff.

=77= 7 =fuera de su centro=:  the Academy defines =estar en su centro= as “to be comfortable and happy in a place or occupation.”

=77= 11 =condujera=:  cf. n. on p. 41, l. 13.

=79= 8 =Ministerio de Fomento=:  the government department “which has charge of promoting advancement and improvement in agriculture, industry, commerce, and public works” (and, before 1900, education).

=79= 25 =si no puedo=:  cf. n. on p. 40, l. 34.

=80= 14 =seremos=:  R. 1195; K.703,_c_; C. 266.

=80= 28 =un=, =82= 1 =unas=:  cf. n. on p. 46, l. 3.

=82= 11 =le dan=:  cf. n. on p. 38, l. 6.

=82= 26 =Asi le ahorcaran=:  ‘I wish they’d hang him!’ or simply ’hang him!’ Cf. n. on p. 4, l. 13.

=83= 5 =fueron entrando=:  cf. n. on p. 76, l. 31.