A fond de train. — FuU speed

210. Tous font des mines du diable, — They ail look at us savagely.

211. n vient nous donner le coup de grâce. — He cornes to give us the finishing stroke. Coup de grâce meant formerly, the last blow given by the executîoner, the blow that ended the sufferings of the victim by causing death.

223. Kreutaers. — For Kreueer, a south Gterman coin worth about two thirds of a cent.

225. Cetix-là n'anipas tourné eoèoque, — Those did not become turn-coats.

227. Un êopeur du génie, — A sapper in the corps of engineerB.

229. Noua prîmes tout droit à trcbwra champs. — ^We eut straight across the ûelds.

231. Qui ne s'étaient jamais fait la barbe. — Who had never shaved.

232. Ifbs habits neufs et nos souliers nous allaient comms des guérites. — Our new clothes and our^shoes were a mile too wide for U8. Guérite, literally sentry-box, is mucli used in such phrases as cela vous va commue une guérite^ that fits you like a sack.