Tarascon, cf. page 37, note

Page 88. — r. Comment va, mon bon? How goes it, old fellow? Note the expression mon bon, very common in the south of France.

2. C'est infect . . . C'est crevant, slang, it is disgusting, it is very droll, or f un ny.

3. clob, club; in the south of France the letter o is pronounced very short, and almost like a.

4. le boulevard refers hère to that part of the Paris boulevards extending from the Porte St. Denis to the church Madeleine, and especially the Boulevard des Italiens and Boulevard des Capu-

cines. Ail thèse thoroughfares extend in a somewhat crooked line from the Place de la Bastille to the Madeleine. Their combined length is about four miles.

5. se mettre au vert, to sober down; the idiom means, "to turn out to grass."

6. Cévennes, cf. page 87, note 1. A range of mountains over 500 kilometers in length and divided into two parts, the northern and the southern. The latter is hère referred to.

7. Emile Augier, one of the foremost contemporary playwrights of France, was born in 1820 at Valence (Department of Drôme) and died in 1889. — M'sieu, note elliptical form of monsieur, implying disdain.

Page 89. — 1. le petit Dumas, cf. page 87, note 6.

2. machin, chose, machin, words used when one can't remember a name.

3. à fleur de tête, ready for use; the idiom means: "on a level with his head."