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Naviaux, a dialectic form of Berry for navets

4. Carottes ; there is a play upon words hère ; Sylvain thinks of the phrase: tirer des carottes de longueur, " to get money by concocting a far-fetched story ", so he says : Yes, it is a good thing, iv/ien it taZ-es !

5. Fichez-nous, a vulgar expression, but it simply means "givr us a rcst ! "

ô. Pas vrai ; in careless speech the n'est -ce is often omitted.

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