[606] =chiripá=, _gaucho trousers_--composed of a piece of cloth wound around the loins and the lower end brought between the legs and fastened in front. [607] =las colonias de Entre Ríos=. The province of Entre Ríos has many colonies of Jewish farmers. [608] _=golondrinas=_, name given in Argentina to the immigrants who go back to their native land each year after the harvest. [609] =los cuatro terrones=, _the niggardly patch_. [610] =parece escribir el sol... la callejuela oriental=, _the sun seems to write in arabesque characters trembling with lights and shadows upon the whitewashed walls of the narrow oriental streets_. [611] =a altas horas de la noche=, _in the late hours of the night_. [612] =una mujer blanca y azul=, _a woman clad in blue and white_, _i.e._, the colors of the Argentine flag. [613] =Murillo=, Spanish painter. Cf. 138, 19. [614] =a prevención=, _in their foresight_. [615] =Van desapareciéndose=, _Gradually there disappear_. [616] =¡Lo que trabajará...!= _How he will work!_ [617] =Balzac= (Honoré de), French novelist of the nineteenth century. [618] ="¡Tú serás mío!"= Cf. _Les Illusions Perdues_, by Balzac, chapter entitled, _Un Grand Homme de Province à Paris_. [619] =entra por mucho=, _plays an important part_. [620] =entre las temblonas pinceladas del gas=, _among the quivering gleams of gas lights_. [621] =toma blancuras de leche=, _becomes milk-white_. [622] =la Mancha=, region in New Castile, Spain, birthplace of Don Quijote, hero of Cervantes' novel, _The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quijote of La Mancha_. The =esforzado hidalgo= mentioned in line 5 is Don Quijote. [623] =a su encuentro=, _to meet him_. [624] =se pierden de vista=, _are lost to view_. [625] =en cuesta=, _on a slope_. [626] =_Salambó_=, novel by Flaubert, the great French novelist of the nineteenth century. It depicts life in Carthage. [627] =les da con un pie en la amplia grupa=, _shoves them off_. [628] =apartando puentes=, _causing bridges to be drawn_. [629] =río abajo=, _downstream_. [630] =en la oportunidad debida=, _at the proper time_. [631] =habría que=, _one should_. [632] =se advierte=, _it is clear_. [633] =se cumplan=, _will be met_. [634] =en este sentido=, _to this effect_. [635] =la independencia y la acción=, _freedom of action_. [636] =Otros=, _Different_. [637] =Hamilton= (Alexander), American statesman and economist (1754-1804). [638] =pueda ser llevada a juicio=, _can be indicted_. [639] =se le prive=, _i.e._, =a la nación= mentioned in line 16. [640] =de la de elegir=, _i.e._, =de la sentencia de elegir=. Trans., _of the power to select_. [641] =porque el cobro... violencia=, _for preventing the collection of it from being carried out by means of violence_. [642] =de tal=, _as such_. [643] =de aquél=, _i.e._, =el capitalista=. [644] =aparece contrariando visiblemente=, _seems to contradict outright_.