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8. Sir Edward Landseer. The author means Sir Edwin H. LandseeVf a celebrated English painter of animais (1802-1873).

9. cheval bai-cerise, dark-bay horse. Both expressions bai-brun (brown-bay) and bai-cerise (cherry-brown) are used in French for dark-bay.

Pagre 24« — i. ronds comme des fers à repasser. In Europe flat-irons are not flat, but rounded and sometimes graceful.