Summary and Analysis by Chapter

Chapter XVII

the Suizo a café or restaurant in Pamplona.

wicket a small window or opening, as for a bank teller or in a box office.

cold (Informal) unlucky or ineffective.

Vaya! (Spanish) Go!

encierro (Spanish) enclosure.

cogido (Spanish) gored.

cornada (Spanish) goring.

Es muy flamenco (Spanish) It is very flamenco

Tafalla a town in Navarra, south of Pamplona.

Estella, Sanguesa towns in Navarra.

grade a sloping surface.

Bocanegra (Spanish) Blackmouth.

You've been in the war This seems to imply that Bill is not a veteran, and yet he has referred to being in France at the end of the war; an apparent contradiction. Perhaps Bill was covering the war as a newspaper correspondent.

Would you mind opening it? Mike is too drunk too open his own beer bottle.

baronet a man holding the lowest hereditary British title, below a baron but above a knight.

Bring up half a dozen bottles of beer and a bottle of Fundador Mike intends to stay severely intoxicated.


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