Faits comme. — ^Looking like. See note, page

182. Si le ecBur vous en dit, — ^If you hâve a mind, or if you would like to try it.

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

Notis allons plumer la poule dans les règles. — ^We shall fleece them according to rule.

185. Pendant que nous mangions de la vache enragée. — There is a pun hère that is untranslatable, as Manger de la vache enragée means, to undergo privations, to hâve a hard time of it.