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Pourvu que tu guérisses, — See note, page

154. Je me porte comme un charme. — I am perfectly well, or I am doîng capitally.

155. Après nous la fin du monde. — When we are gone, haMMn what may. This thought is more generally expressed by après w/us le déluge.

157. Fuchscommerce. — In German student's language, a Fuchs, literally fox, corresponds to Freshman; Commerce, more properly Commtrz or Commers, is a ^tonvivial meeting of students with certain traditional

vsages. The correct form of the componnd.is Puchsencùmmerê. To one acquainted with German student customs, this word wiil appear misappUed hère.

158. Geêoundheit, — The correct spelling is Gemndheit, health. Qœ diable. — See note, page 85, and page 47.

160. On notu faisait des nânes du diable, — They looked at ns savagely. See note, page ^7*

161. Fanfan-tar- TuUpe et le Roi Dagobert. — The names of two very popular French songs, not of a very elevated character.

162. La drogue, — À game at cards, played among soldiers, in which the loser pats a fbrked pièce of wood called drogue on his nose, which he wears until he wins again.

Bouchon, — A game in which pièces of money are placed on a cork, which is to be knocked over with a quoit.

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