A fond de train, — Full speed

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

199. // vient nous donner le cotp de yrâce. — He cornes to give ns the finishing stroke. Cottp de grâce meant formerlj, the last blow given by the executloner, the blow that ended the sufferings of the yictim i>y causing death.

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

212. Ceux-là n^ont pas iowmi casaque. — Those did not become tnm- Goats.

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

216. Nous primes tout droit à travers champs. — We eut straîght acroas the fields.

218. Qui ne s* étaient jamais Jmt la barbe. — Who had never shaved.

219. Nos hfibits neufs et nos souliers nous allaient comme des guérites. — Car new clothes and oar shoes were a mUe too wide for us. Guérite^ literally sentry-box, is much used in sach phrases as cela vous va comme une guérite^ t£at fits yoa like a sack.