Je le remerciai. — See note, page

Schnaps. — German, Schnapps ; used for any raw spirits.

180. Tous deux étaient perdus. — Both would hâve been lost. Notice the peculiar use of the imperfect, instead of the compound tense of the conditional.

181. En marchant sur son tambour. — By going in the direction of the drum-beat of his own régiment.

183. Tous ceux qui nous en voulaient. — Ail those who had any thing against us.

187. Fourniment. — This word, which now means accoutrements, is hère used in its old sensé of dressincc-case.

Tu viens d'en échapper (Tune belle. — You hâve just had a narrow escape of it. The expression in coramon use is Vêchapper belle ; this, as well as many other phrases in which the word belle is used idiomatically, is taken from the game of tennis, the word balle being understood.