le ûtisaient rouler, kept it rolling

25. aloi = quality ; not to be confused with alliage (see next line) = alloy.

26. n y arait déjà, etc., it had already been trotting for a year, etc.

18* — 2. partit en yoyage, etc., started on a journey in foreign lands.

4. résolu de. Note the préposition ; the verbs résoudre, décider, déterminer, and a few others usually take de when the following infinitive is their direct object, but à when they hâve another direct object, reflexive or otherwise.

7. gardons-le. In the absence of a first person singular imperative, the first plural is sometimes used with that value.