[46] The tilde is the mark placed over the Spanish letter n, as in Señor.
[47] Tricks of cheatery at cards.
[48] Cutpurse.
[49] The wolf-cub.
[50] For Peruvians, which the American merchants were then called.
THE LICENTIATE VIDRIERA; OR, DOCTOR GLASS-CASE.
Two students were one day passing along the banks of the Tormes, when they found a boy, about eleven years old, dressed as a labourer, and sleeping under a tree. They sent a servant to wake him, and when he had well opened his eyes, they asked him whence he came, and what he was doing, to be lying asleep and defenceless in that lonely place. The boy replied, that he had forgotten the name of his birthplace, but was going to Salamanca, there to seek a master whom he might serve, on condition of being permitted and aided to pursue his studies.
The gentlemen then asked if he could read, and he replied that he could, and write also.
"It is not from want of memory, then, that you have forgotten the name of your country," remarked the students.