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

234 HISTOIBE d'un conscrit de 1813.

120. 8chweinpeh,-^K Gennan word, rather low, Qsed as a ierm of reproach; dirtj pig.

Nom étiotu /mit eomrtie des bouchen. — We looked like butchers ; être fftit comme often means to look like, in a disparaging sensé ; tbus, page 17 Ifjhita comme de verUables bandits means, lookiug like perfect baudiU.

122. N<nu avions retiré noire peau de l'affaire, — We had got eut of it safe. Peau is found in many familiar phrases in the sensé of, liie ; as, /aire bon marché de sa peau, to set little value upon one*s life.

124. Leurs /unis en brancards. — Tbeir guns croesed formlng a litter. For the use of en in^this phrase, compare the expressions en^Manfon, en éciaireurs ; see note, page 99.

126. Forwertz. — The correct spellîng of this German "Word la Vortoârts : it means forward.

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

£n épaukmL — As I rested my gnn against my shonlder.

180. Pourvu maintenant que les Français PemportenL — See note, page 6.

186. Bien autrement dans te^priL — Much more vividly in my mind. See note, page 78.

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

138. Cela n^aMait pourtant pas mal, — Things were getting along very well, however. Aller is often used thus idiomatically ; thus, below, on the same page, Fh bien I ça va-t-il ce matin? — Well ! are you getting along Ihis moming?

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

Je me sctuve, —~ I am off.

148. En buvant des chopes, — Drinking glasses of béer. Chope, a word now much used in France, comes from the Gennan Schojppen, a pint measure.