[115], 28. harina de otro costal: flour from a different sack; i. e., another matter, another story, a horse of a different color, another pair of sleeves. Note that the miller's wife went to the mill for her figure.
[117], 8. cuarto estado, the Fourth Estate, i. e., the laborers and serving-classes, the proletariat, as distinguished from the Third Estate, the Commons.
[119], 10. arrimó una bofetada: handed him a blow.
[120], 6. San Simón y San Judas. The feast-day of St. Simon and St. Jude, Apostles, is October 28th. Simon Zelotes the Canaanite, and Judas, also called Thaddeus, are mentioned among the disciples of Jesus, Matthew x, 3, Mark iii, 18, Luke vi, 16; and again, Acts i, 13. For a curious account of their lives and martyrdom, see Jacobus a Voragine, Legenda aurea, Cap. CLIX (154), ed. Graesse, Breslau, 1890, or the Temple reprint of Caxton's translation of the same work, London, Dent, 1900 (vol. VI, pp. 72 sqq.). The night of St. Simon and St. Jude is in Spain what St. John's Eve (June 23) is in most of the rest of Europe, the season when ghosts, goblins and fairies are busiest. Compare [86], 10-12.
[121], 6. Anteo. Antæus, a giant, son of Poseidon and Gaia. He was invincible as long as he was on the ground, receiving added strength from the Earth, his mother, at every contact. He was killed by Hercules, who held him in the air and strangled him.
[121], 8. énfasis. This word, originally feminine, has become common, and is now more often found masculine.
[122], 19. la pompa, "the peacock's tail," "the cheese." The name is taken from the puffed circle made on the floor by the performer's skirts at the lowest point of the courtesy.
[124], 20. Solán de Cabras: thermal bath at Beteta in the province of Cuenca, about eighty miles eastward from Madrid. The Springs have been known since the sixteenth century, when herdsmen found goats "suffering with cutaneous complaints" bathing in the waters. Hence the name.
[126], 5. arroba, in dry measure twenty-five pounds; as liquid measure, varies in different provinces.
[126], 10. Guerra de la Independencia. The Peninsular War, 1808-1814, between England, Spain, Portugal and France. It resulted in the expulsion of the French from the Peninsula.