s^arracTuint Vun h VaiUre. See note to

12. se tirer d'affaire. Affaire is used in this idiom in the secondary sense, * to extricate one's self from a diflBculty.'

13. il arriva ce que, etc. Impersonal constructions are more common in French than in English. Instead of * there (it) happene<l what,' say * the result was what' Suppress the relative que after mats in translation.

21. s*élait fail jour. J<mr ia often used in the sense of < opening that admits light or air.* Se/cùrejoar ia lit ' to make day (light) for one's self,' t*.6. * to open up a pa-ssage for one's self*

23. Je ne fié ni una ni deux. For the gender of une, see Prep, to 81, 1. 10. ' To do neither one thing nor two ' is equivalent to 'not to think twice about a thing.' The French idiom is suggested by the irresolute man who tries first one thing, then another.

27. par terre. A thing which stands on the ground falls par terre; what was previously not touching the ground falls à terre. A tree falls par terrf.; the fruit fa. Is à terre.

— . f?oyet la cl.os'. étrange, lubtead of Uhe strange thing,' say * the strangeness (if the thing.'

29. je n*en fouettai qtie de plus heUe. This may be rendered ' I only gave him a sounder crack for it.' En, lit. * in respect of it,* may often be omitted; here it need not ba De plus heUe^ yet another idiomatic feminine, is idiomatic for de nouveau, 'anew,' connoting the meaning of doing a thing better as well as again.