Faiis comme. — Looking like. See note, page

172. Si.le coeur vous en dîL — If yon hâve a mind, or, if you woold like to tiy it;.

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

Nous allons plumer la poule dans les règles. — We shaU 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 vacàe enragée means, to nndergo privations, to hâve a hard time of it.