des baisers pour tout de bon, hearty hisses

Page 27. — 1. un manège, lit., riding-school; trans., by-play. 2. V étude, the office.

Page 29. — 1. lever les verveux, to take up the fishing-nets.

2. Ancien officier des guides, he was former ly an qfficer in the "guides.'''' — The "guides" were a kind of light cavalry under the reign of Napoléon III.

3. Thiers, who was the first président of the French Republic, was born in 1797 and died in 1877. He is well known as a historian, having published a history of the French Révolution, the Consulate, and the Empire.

4. Mac-Mahon was born in 1808, he died in 1893. He took part in ail the campaigns of the second Empire, having fought in Crimea, Italy and Algeria. He was the commander of an army during the Franco- German War, and was wounded at the battle of Sedan. He was président of the Republic from 1873 to 1879.

5. Grévy who came from staunch republican stock, was the third président of the Republic, from 1879 to 1887. He died in 1889.

Page 30. — 1. rasaient la pelouse, trans., were flying dose to the lawn ; lit., shaved the lawn.