Spanish Tales for Beginners

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[[38-23]] debió pasar, 'must have passed.'

[[38-25]] destacóse=se destacó. Note, finally, that a personal pronoun object may follow any verb that comes first in a clause.—le echó los brazos al cuello, 'threw her arms about her neck.'

[[38-31]] dejó de: see no (or ni) dejar de, under dejar, in Vocab.

39.—[[39-1]] que is expletive: do not translate.

ECONOMÍA PRÁCTICA

Luis Taboada, b. 1848 at Vigo in Galicia, d. 1906. Taboada is a playwright and novelist, but he has probably excelled in the humorous articles that he has written for the daily press.

There is a good American edition of some of these humorous sketches, Cuentos alegres edited by Prof. Murray Anthony Potter of Harvard University (Boston, 1907). The editor of Spanish Tales for Beginners has pleasure in acknowledging his indebtedness to Professor Potter.

40.—[[40-7]] Quiero que sea, 'I wish it to be.']

41.—[[41-6]] después de... rebajen, 'after getting them to throw off.'

[[41-19]] Hace pocos días tuvo que, 'a few days ago he had to.'