faire faction, to be on sentry duty

1. 27. je vous en fournirais bien fout de même, tout de même, lit. *all the same', is oiten used by French people of the lower classes without référence to anything in particular, much as ' considering' is used by the same class of people in England.

1. 33. eiicolure, neck and shoulders, used exclusively of horses ; it désignâtes that part of the animal's body by vsrhich the head is joined to the rest of the body.

Page 19. 1. 2. Sceaux, a suburb in the south-east of Paris ; a pretty ruml neighbourhood.

1. 5. c'est franc commue Vosier, he is absolutely frank. The expression is due to the fact that the osier has no knots.

1. 10. sans un peu d'humeur, without a little show of temper.

1. 15. la petite monnaie de Vesprit, lit. the small coins of wit, such as circulate continually ; 'every-day ideas.'

Page 20. 1. 3. mit sa femme au fait de la vente et du détail des parfumeries, initiated his wife in the wholesale and retail business of perfumery.

1. 6. ganter les chalands, lit. to glove customers, i. e. to please them.

1. 21. donnaient du ton à la peau qui voulait être relâchée, made elastic the skin which had need of being relaxed.

Page 21. 1. 11. alléchés, attracted; cp. La Fontaine: Maître renard par Vodeur alléché (Le Corbeau et le Renard).