[49] hacen el oso: see [hacer]. In Spain it is customary for a young man to walk back and forth before the house of his fair one, watching the windows, thus hoping to obtain a glimpse of her. Hence the comparison to a bear pacing back and forth in his cage.
[50] La Esclavitud: see [footnote 40].
[51] San José, etc.; see [footnote 8].
[52] Santa Clara: a fictitious name.
[53] Tablas de resistencias: a catalogue, or tabular list, giving the electrical resistance of metals.
[54] el Mágico prodigioso: see [footnote 1].
[55] ¿Cuánto (tiempo) hace que comieron?
[56] Fausto: Dr. Johann Faust, or Faustus, born near Weimar, and said to have died in 1538. A magician, astrologer, and soothsayer. The legends concerning him have furnished material for several plays, notably Goethe's tragedy "Faust." Calderon's play "El Mágico Prodigioso" resembles Goethe's play, though founded upon another legend.
[57] Homero: Homer. The poet to whom tradition assigns the authorship of the "Iliad" and the "Odyssey." Modern criticism has led to the doubt whether such a person as Homer existed at all, the great epics which bear that name being supposed to be the product of various persons and ages.
[58] Virgilio: Virgil or Vergil. Publius Vergilius Maro (70 B.C.-19 B.C.), a famous Roman epic and idyllic poet. His works include "Eclogues" or "Bucolics," "Georgics," and the "Aeneid."