Je le remerciai, — See note, page

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

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

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

183. Tous ceux qui nous en voulaienl. — AU those who had any thing agaînst us.

187. Fourniment — This word, which now means accoutrements, is hère used in its old sensé of dresain«c-K»sa>

236 NOTES TO HISTOIBB d'uN CONSCRIT DE 1813.

Tu viens c^en ickcqiper éTtaiie htBe. — Ton hâve jimt had a narrow escape of it. The expression in common use is Véehapper bette ; this, as wêll as many other phrase^ in which the word beile is used idiomatically, is taken firom the game of tennis, the word haJUe being onderstood.