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	Lección Ciento una (101)
	Delante del garage	Before [of-]the garage.

1	¿Qué haces, Pedro? — Estoy esperando al mozo del distribuidor para que me dé gasolina; ¿y tú? ¿acaso vienes por un auto de alquiler (1)? ¿Quieres que te lleve?	What are yon doing, Peter? , — I am waiting (for) the boy of the petrol-pump that he may give me petrol, arid you?... Perhaps you come for a hired motor-car? Do you want me to take you?
2	¡Ca, hombre! muchas gracias, ya tengo auto proprio (propio) (2)! — ¿Y sabes conducir?	No, no, my dear (boy), thank you very much; now [already] I have my own car. — And you know how to drive?
3	¡Ya lo creo! Hace un mes que tengo carnet y quince días que compré mi coche : un cabriolé casi nuevo, tres asientos cinco caballos.	I (should) think so! It is one month since I had my license and 15 days since I bought my car; an almost new cabriolet, 3 seats, 5 HP.
4	Por mil pesetas lo tuve, una ganga que me encontró el garagista (3).	I had it for one thousand pesetas, a bargain that the garage-man found me.
5	¡Vaya! ¿y estás satisfecho con él? — Pues así, así, nada más; pero conste que fué sólo por culpa mía (4). — ¿Eso quiere decir que ya tuviste algún percance?	My! And you are satisfied with it? — Well, so so, no more, but it's obvious that this has been only [by] my fault. — Does this mean that you already had some accident?
6	Ahí está lo malo; vas a echar la cuenta : el primer día que salí, se me fundió una biela por falta de aceite;	Here is (my) bad luck; you'll make a [the] reckoning : on the first day I drove out, one of my rods was damaged through lack of oil;
7	tan pronto como volví a sacar el coche, tuve un reventón por desgaste de la cubierta;	As soon as I began again to take out my car, I had a puncture owing to the worn state of a tyre;
8	luego, a los pocos días, me quedé en panne en medio de la carretera. Por más que anduve con la manivela, no podía ponerme en marcha;	then a few days later [at f. d.], I had [remained in a] breakdown in the middle of the road; crank the handle as I might [for more that I had a shot at the handle], I could not start [put me in march];
9	un chófer de taxis me sacó del apuro,: figúrate que tenía la batería descargada, una bugía engrasada, y además había agua en el carburador; hubo que desarmarlo.	a taxi-driver helped me out of (my) trouble; fancy that I had a discharged battery, a sooted up plug, and in addition there was water in the carburettor (carburetor); I had to take it to pieces.
10	Y luego para desquitarme de aquella parada forzosa, pillé una multa por exceso de velocidad.	Then to take my revenge of that forced stop, I got a fine for excessive speed [excess of s.].
	(Sigue.)	(To be continued.)

	EJERCICIOS	EXERCISE :
	En la zapatería.	At the cobbler's shop.
1	Maestro, a ver si me puede poner unas medias suelas y enderezar los tacones a estos zapatos...	Governor, let's see if you can put me half-soles and set right the heels of these shoes?
2	Dentro de dos días estarán listos, ¿verdad?... Muy bien, además, necesitaría un par de botas por el estilo de éstas, de charol y con caña de ante...	In two days they'll be ready, won't they? Very good, moreover, I should need a pair of boots of the type of those, of patent leather and with deerskin legs.
3	Con botones, no; prefiero con lazos... ¿Dice usted que 50 pesetas? Me parecen muy caras...	Not with buttons, I prefer laces... You say that 50 pesetas...? They seem very dear to me?
4	Ya sabe usted que no me gusta regatear, pero fíjese como desde algún tiempo acá bajaron los precios en todas las zapaterías...	You know that I don't like to haggle, but (you must) notice that for some time [in that] prices have gone down in all the shoe shops.
5	De seguro que en cualquier tienda de precio fijo encontraría los mismos bastante más baratos.,.	(It's) quite sure that in any fixed-price shop, I should find the same rather cheaper.
6	Sí, ya sé que entre unos zapatos cosidos a mano y otros hechos completamente a máquina no hay comparación por lo que se refiere a solidez, duración y comodidad...	Yes, I know that between a pair of hand-stitched shoes and others completely machine-made, there is no comparison as [what] regards solidity, wear and comfort.
7	Pero mire también que es mucha la diferencia de precio, casi de la mitad...	But remark also that there is much difference in [of] price, of nearly the half,
8	¡Vamos! estoy convencido que si me las pone usted a 45 pesetas, no salé usted perdiendo...	Come! I am convinced that if you put them (down) at 45 pesetas, you won't come off a loser.
	It would be profitable to you to do with this text the same exercise as with la sastrería; here the replies to be guessed are those of the master cobbler.

	NOTES.
1	Vienes por, you come for. We have already found similar phrases in which "por" is equivalent to " to get", generally after a verb of motion (as in English) : subir por, to go up for; bajar por, to go down for...; mandar por, to send for. Remember the picturesque saying : ir por lana y volver trasquilado, to go for wool and come back shorn ("It's a case of the biter bit").
2	Propio = mío, that belongs to me. ¡Ca! an interjection reinforcing negation and doubt : Come! — Nonsense!
3	In motoring language, Spanish has borrowed many words to French, respecting the spelling and pronunciation more or less : carnet (pr. carnay), cabriolé, garage (ga-raHay), garagista, panne (pan), manivela (-bayla), chófer (tchoffay-r), taxis (tackseess), batería, bugía (booHeea). — Carnet de conducir, driving-license. License is generally licencia. Any crank, except a motor-car one, is generally : manubrio.
4	Conste, subj. of constar, to be evident; me consta que, it's obvious to me that; que te conste, or simply, conste: May it be evident to you, be certain that...