ménagers : " Provençal farmers

1* La Roquette ; a minor locality of those parts.

i'» arlésien, arlésienne : the proper adjective from Arles. The women of Arles, who hâve long been celebrated for their beauty, still retain a peculiar fashion of head-dress.

1" grain : " flavor " ; " spice."

'" la Crau : a pebbly plain to the east of Camargue. Before geology was an established science, the pebbles of Crau were popularly explained by the tradition that they were the fallen shower of stones with which Jupiter supplied Hercules to défend himself against two

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giant sons of Neptune, who had attacked hini there on his return from I beria.

1* Royaume d'Arles: formed in 973; passed partly by bequest, partly through conquest, into the hands of the emperor Conrad II. in 1032; but from the thirteenth century down it was gradually absorbed by France. See especially the Appendix, N^ote A. of Mr. Bryce's Holy Rotnan Etnpire for the clearest statement available in regard to the intricate subject of the old Burgundian kingdoms. duchies, counties, etc.

1^ bergerot : diminutive of berger.

'^ Fénimore Coupère and Robainçon Cruzoé are as familiar sounds in France as Fénimore Cooper and Robinson Crusoe among us.

■^^ j'aime rester : in coUoquial style the préposition à is very commonly omitted after the verb aimer; notwithstanding that grammarians forbid such license.

— caleil : a kind of small lamp which is used in Provence.

-^ A l'espère ! (^> V affût !) : " New for the watch."

-* naye-cMen: that would " drown a dog"; noyer, " to drown," or in older French nayer, neïcr, is negar in Provençal; whence the negochiti.

■^ ne laisse pas que de : " does not fail to."

'-*' à l'arrêt: "of a pointer; " "pointing." Chien d'arrêt is a " pointer " ; chien couchant, a " setter." Tomber en arrêt : " to point " ; coucher : '• to set."

-" ébouriffement : "fluttering."'

-'^ craquement de l'armature surmenée : " clicking of the uverstrained gun-cocks."

-*• Le Rouge et le Blanc : " Republican and Royalist." White was the color of the Bourbons; red, the synibol of " exalted " republicanism.

*'' hallebrand, more commonly ha/bran: ■• young wild duck." The Word is of German origin, Halbente, from a presumable Middle High German form Halberant.

*i Robinson Crusoe, of course.