sur trois. Un sur trois means ' one in three

24. il faudra bien qu'un. Render this by a personal construction. See note to p. 11, 1. 23. Kender lien by « surely.'

— . gare à Robin. Gare, the imperative of garer, is lit. 'ont of the way!' A Robin must be taken to dépend on a verb, understood, e.g. je crie gare ! à Robin.

25. aussitôt payé, je lui fends la tête. The partiel pie payéovight, of course, to agrée with the subject je, but does not. The correspondingly careless English is «once paid, I will split his head in two.' To make the sentence correct, the adverb aussitôt should be the conjunction aussitôt que with a finite verb. In phrases like aussitôt dit aussitôt fait, aussitôt is an adverb, * immediately said, immediately done,' i.e. * no sooner said thau done.*