Faits comme. — Looking like. See note, page

172. Si le cœur vous en dit. — If you hâve a mind, or, if you would like to try it.

Merci. — Thank you, no. Merci, and the verb remercier, unless the context plainly indicates the contrary, are used for refusais.

Nous allons plumer la poule dans les règles. — We shall fleece them according to rule.

174. Pendant que nous mangions de la vache enragée. — There is a pun hère that is untranslatable, as Manger de la vache enragée ineans^ to undergo privations, to hâve a hard time of it.