A fond de train. — Full speed

198. Tous font des mines du diable. — They ail look at us savageiy.

199. Il vient nous donner le coup de grâce. — He cornes to give us the finish, "«g stroke. Coup de grâce meant formerly, the last blow given by the executioner, the blow that ended the sufferings of the victim by causing death.

210. Kreutzers. — For Kreuzer, a south German coin worth about twothirds of a cent.

212. Ceux-là n'ont pas tourné casaque. — Those did not become turncoats.

215. Un sapeur du génie. — A sapppr in the corps of engineers.

216. Nous prîmes tout droit à travers champs. — We eut straight across the lields.

218. Qui ne s' étaient j amais fait la barbe. — Who had never shaved.

219. Nos habits nevfs et nos souliers nous allaient comme des gw'rites. — Our new clothes and our shoes were a mile too wide for us. Guérite, literally sentry-box, is much used in such phrases as cela vous va comme une guérite, that fits you like a sack.