12. We do not wish to throw good money after bad (echar la soga tras el caldero).[133]
13. We shall invoice by next mail your glassware and haberdashery.
14. Ham is a drug in the market (no tiene salida).
15. A good business is done at present in drysalteries.
16. A good crop of maize is announced from Cape Town (desde el Cabo).
[Footnote 133: Lit.: to throw the rope after the pail.]
LESSON XXI.
(Lección vigésima primera.)
DEFECTIVE AND PRONOMINAL VERBS.
=Defective Verbs= are those only certain parts of which are in use, the rest having never existed in the language or having died out of it.
The principal ones are—