[[108-20]] rellena, 'stuffed.' Note the intensive particles re and rete: rebueno, 'very good,' retebueno, 'very, very good.'—¡Bonito soy yo para que nadie pase! 'I should be a fine fellow to let any one suffer.'
[[108-24]] en ver devorar á su amigo y huésped: amigo and huésped are subjects of devorar, as well as objects of ver.
[[108-25]] de á media libra: see under libra, in Vocab. Cf. un billete de á cien pesetas, 'a hundred-peseta bank-note.'
109.—[[109-6]] escribir, 'writing.'
[[109-11]] caminantes is the subject of saludarse: the se of saludarse is reciprocal ('one another').—aún cuando, see under cuando, in Vocab.
[[109-13]] capital: see Córdoba, in Vocab.
CUADROS DE COSTUMBRES
Fernán Caballero (her real name was Cecilia Böhl de Faber), b. 1796 in Switzerland, d. 1877. She went to Spain (to Andalusia) at an early age, and became one of the most Spanish of Spanish women. In her writings she used the pseudonym of Fernán Caballero. The novels and tales of Fernán Caballero have always been popular in Spain. They abound in charming descriptions of the home life of the common people and of nature; but they contain many digressions that are personal or didactic, they usually end with a crime, and often they have an air of evident unreality. Works: La gaviota, La familia de Alvareda, Elia, Deudas pagadas, Relaciones, Cuadros de costumbres, Un servilón y un liberalito, et al.
110.—[[110-6]] puertos: at the mouth of the river.
[[110-8]] que no, 'than.' This expletive no after a comparative can not be expressed in English.