=Antonio de Trueba y Quintana=: see note, page 8.
=79.=--[79.1] =El Manzanares= is the river that flows through Madrid. Generally
it carries little water, but after heavy rains it sometimes becomes a
raging torrent. In the Appendix to _Cuentos populares_, Trueba says that
the people of Madrid are twitted for having once believed that there was
a whale in the Manzanares river, when it was only a floating
pack-saddle.
[79.8] =Dar el primero=, 'to be the first to give.']
79.10: =Ver Alvar..., y salir..., todo era uno=, 'it was all
one for Alvar to see..., and for him to go out...'='as soon as Alvar
saw..., he would go out....'
[79.13] =el gusto de que acudiesen=, 'the pleasure of their
coming.'
[79.15] =antes que nadie=, 'before any one else.'
[79.20] =San Isidro=, 'Saint Isidor,' the patron saint of
Madrid. He lived in the twelfth century. It is related of him that he
was one day at prayer in his fields, when angels descended from heaven
and drove the plow, finishing his plowing for him. He is also called the
_Labrador de Madrid_.
[79.21] =sobre si=: see under _si_, in Vocab.
[80.5] =á más no poder=: see under _poder_, in Vocab.
[80.6] =á poco más=: see under _poco_, in Vocab.
[80.7] =no lo dejó=, 'it did not stop [raining].'
[80.10] =por no tener=, 'on account of not having,' or 'because it did not have.'
[80.11] =aprendiz de río=, 'an apprentice of a river.'
[80.17] =Móstoles=: the wine-grower of _Móstoles_ had been mentioned
before. He had a wine-shop at _Móstoles_, about nine miles west of
Madrid, and had recently established a branch in the outskirts of Madrid
beside the Manzanares. In a meadow between the wine-shop and the river
the empty wine-casks (=cubas=) were accumulating.
=81.=--[81.4] =del agua sacarían vino==_sacarían vino del agua_.
[81.7] =Oir Alvar=, 'for Alvar to hear': see note, page 79, l. 10.
[81.19] =coronada villa del oso.=--The arms of Madrid show a bear
climbing a _madroño_ (see Vocab.). The crest is a crown.
=82.=--[82.2] =Otra te pego==_te pegaré otra_ [_paliza_, _bofetada_, or some
such word].
[82.5] =me=, 'from me': =me= is dat. of separation or privation.--=una
va llena=, 'one is full (lit., 'one goes full'). Note that =va llena= is
taken for =ballena=. As a matter of fact, most Spaniards pronounce _b_
and _v_ alike. See the Hills-Ford _Spanish Grammar_, § 6.
[82.8] =anda á=: see under _andar_, in Vocab. Cf. _ve á hacerlo_, 'go
_and_ do it'; and _ven á hacerlo_, 'come _and_ do it.'--=la cabra de tu
madre=, 'your goat of a mother.'
[82.12] =Que=: do not translate.--=me dan de palos=: note this partitive
construction with _dar_; _de_ may be translated by 'some.'
[82.23] =albarda=: see l. 7 of the same page.
[82.25] =empinarse á un madroño= may be freely rendered: 'to be turned
into bears (for their stupidity).'