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60-1: =tengo de costumbre=: _I am accustomed_.

60-2: =picar un cigarro=: _crumble the tobacco for making a
cigarette_.

60-3: =caidos=: _sunken_; hecho: _transformed into_.

60-4: =calle de la Amargura=: cf. note, p. 52, 4.

60-5: =Mi querer morir=: The speech of the Pole is ungrammatical, and
his verbs are all in the infinitive.

60-6: =franchute=: a contemptuous term, synonymous with Frenchman.

60-7: =cayo redondo=: cf. note, p. 9, 3.

60-8: =iSuba V. ese mulo!=: _fetch up that mule_.