Pourvu que etc. — I hope. See note, page

120. Schoeinpeh. — A German word, rather low, used as a term of reproacli; dirty pig.

Nous étions faits comme des bouchers. — We looked like butchers; être fait comme ofteu means to look like, in a disparaging sensé; thus, page 171, faits comme de véritables bandits means, looking like perfect bandits.

122. Nous avions retiré notre peau de l'affaire. — We had got out of it safe. Peau is found in many fàmiliar phrases in the sensé of, liie ; as, faire bon marché de sa peau, to set little value upon one's life.

124. Leurs fusils en brancards. — Their guns crossed forming a litter. For the use of en in this phrase, compare the expressions en planton, en éclaireurs ; see note, page 99.

126. Forwertz. — The correct spelling of this German word is Vorwârts : it means forward.

Nous faisions la navette. — We went back and forth. Navette is properly a weaver's shuttle; hence the figurative meaning of faire la navette, to go backwards and forwards.

En épaulant. — As I rested my gun against my shoulder.

130. Pourvu maintenant que les Français V emportent. — See note, page 5.

135. Bien autrement dans V esprit. — Much more vividly in my mind. See note, page 78.

137. Mais cela m'était bien égal. — But what did I care. For the force of bien in this sentence, see note, page 7.

138. Cela n'allait pourtant pas mal. — Things were getting along very well, however. Aller is often used thus idiomatically ; thus, below, on the same paçre, Eh bien ! ça va-t-il ce matin f — Well ! are you getting along this morning?

Je suis en train de chercher un bouchon. — I am just now looking for a public house ; être en train de means, to be about something, to be doing it. Bouchon, besides cork or stopper, also means a wisp of straw or a bush, the sign of a public house.

Je me sauve. — I am off.

148. En buvant des chopes. — Drinking glasses of béer. Chope, a word now much used in France, cornes frorn the German Schoppen, a pint measure.