Boucha à feu. — Pièces of ordnance

Reiwmter les "horloges en ville. — To wind up the clocks in the town. En vide has oflen the force of out, not ai home; as diner en ville, to dine out. It is the custom in France to hâve ail the clocks, in private houses as well as in public buildings, under the charge of an horlQger, who comea at re^ular intervais to wind them up and set them.

Jf. le commandant de place. — Offîcer commanding the garrison, or govemor. Notice the use of Monsieur before the titles commanaantj maire,

Vîlna. — Wilna, a town of West-Rnssîa. The to in foreign proper names is often changed in French to v, as Warsaw, Varsovie ; sometimes, however, it remains unchanged, as in Moshowa on page 12; it is then usually pronounced as a t;, except in English names.

14. Seigneur Dieu. — Such exclamations as the above, and many others in which the word Dieu occurs, especially mon Dieu, can scarcely ever be satisfactorily rendered in English, as they are far fh>m baving the force that the words would seem to imply. They are considered in France as mère harmless interjectional phrases; certainly no idea of profanity is ever connected with them by those who make use of them. Hence they may either be left altogether untranslated, or, when it is possible, some such English équivalents as the following may be employed: "goodness," "gracions," "dear me," **oh myl" "oh dear!" or sometimes even "indeed, "truly," "why."

Et sûrement qu'elle prépare. — Qae is hère an expletive, brought on by the previous sentence, " Vmld maintenant gue tu peux faire.'**

17. Lui me regardait. — The disjnnctive form hd is hère nsed irregalarly instead of il. This occurs several times in the work, among others on page 26. This use of Itd, though sometimes met with in ctilloquial French, is not to be recommended. A few paragraphs below, lui-même is used very much in the same way, as the subject of erifermcL.