si je siffle de travers, if I whistle out of tune

8. qui vous donnent Tair d'un marguiUier en train d'avaler une omelette!, which make you look like a church-warden in the act of swallowing an omelet.

25. une jeune grisette, a young working-girl. Grisette^ diminutive of gris^ gray, refers to the color of the costume which working-girls wore as a class in former times.

28. qui te donnent l'air enftriné, comme un paUlasse de la foire, make s you look like a clown. Enfariné {itom farine, fiour), powdered with flour.