34-8: cuartos ... ochavos: the cuarto (1/4) was a small copper coin (obsolete) worth four maravedís. Cuarto is also, however, a (fourth) part of a lacerated body—cf. the English draw and quarter. Hacer cuartos may be translated by this phrase and hacer ochavos by make mincemeat.
34-9: ochavo: (1/8) half a cuarto.
34-10: corrían la francachela: were carousing.
35-1: contaría: cf. note no habría andado, p. 8, 6.
35-2: dijérase: in either member of a conditional sentence (i.e. condition or conclusion) the simple tense may be substituted for the compound one. Thus dijérase = se hubiera (or habría) dicho.