tendre la main, i.e. to beg

Page 80* — I. en 7 portant les deux mains; the others balanced their burdens on their heads, touching it, if at ail, with but one handk

2, avec ta peau, withyour suffering; lit., ''with your skin."

Page dl« ■— I. ce que j'ai fait souffrir, what I mode others suffer»

2. j'en suis pour mes coups de bâtons, / hâve nothing but my beating; '<I get my labor for my pains.*' Notice that en (lit ''of it ") is used indefinitely to form a number of verbal idioms.

Page 82. — I. se tirait à merveille de, acquitted himself wondèrfully in,