Padron di casa ; Italian : = the landlord^ or host

Page 9. — I. tenir tête = toface.

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2. Adams . . . Tom Cribbs, two famous English boxers (really Cribb).

3. les quatre fers en Pair (fer here = "horse shoe"); said of a horse that loses its footing with ail four feet at once, and falls on its back. The expression is used in a familiar way for a man falling suddenly backwards.

4. iriser = to give something the varions shades of a rainbow. See page 3, note 4.

5. macaque, a species of monkey ; word of ten used in French for an ugly or a stupid person.

6. papier cream-lead azuré et vergé; papier vergé = "laid paper," paper marked with parallel Unes or water marks, as if ribbed from parallel wires in the mold. It is called créant laid (and not créant lead as the author has it), "blue laid," etc., according to its color.

7. cire aventurine, a light brown sealing wax fuU of glittering spots. This name is derived from aveniuriite^ a kind of feldspar containing shining particles called also "Sunstone."

8. les pleins = the heavy Unes in writing. — Les déliés = the light Unes.

Page 10. — I. pli, term used instead of letter, which is always folded (plier := " to fold ") in contrast to billet, which is written on a card and therefore not folded.

2. Folkestone, a seaport in southern Ëngland, seven miles Southwest of Dover, popular for its good sea bathing. Steamers ply daily between this town and Boulogne, on the coast of France.