En épaulant. — As I rested my gun against my shoulder

138. Pourvu maintenant que les Français remportent. — See note, page 6. * -

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148. Bien autrement dans l'esprit, — ^Much more vividly in my mind. See note, page 83.

145. Mais cela m'était bien égal, — But what did I care. For the force of bien in this sentence, see note, page 7.

Cela n'allait pourtant pas mal. — Things were ^tting along very well» however. Aller is often used thus iaiomatically; thus, below, on tlie same page. Eh bien! ça va-tU ce matint^y^eW I are y on getting along this moming ?

146. Je suis en train de chercher un bouchon. — I am just now looking for a public-house; être en train de means, to be about somcthing, to be doing it. Bouchon, besides cork or stopper, also means a wisp of straw or a bush, the sign of a public-house.

Je me ea/wee. — ^1 am off.

157. Bhibwùant des chopee, — ^Drinking glasses of béer. Chope, a Word now much used in France, cornes from the Qerman 8choppen, a pint measure.