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73-2: =recien llegado:= _recien_ is used instead of _recientemente_
before a past participle.

73-3: =se lo:= cf. note _se la_, p. 4, 6.

73-4: =materialmente:= _by bodily force_.

73-5: =el mismo Regidor=: usually _mismo_ intervening between article
and noun means _same_. Occasionally it corresponds to the emphatic
pronoun _himself_, etc.

73-6: =ha de ver:= _must look to it, must beware_.

73-7: =Egido=: apparently the name of his garden.

73-8: =tirando de el:= _pulling at it_ (so as to empty it).