chaloupe à vapeur, ''steam-launch

4. l'arrière is the part of a ship that extends from the mainmast to the stem.

8. Mon capitaine. The possessive adjective is often used in military address to officers ; by simple soldiers always.

8. se faire attendre = " to tarry,** lit, ** to make (one) wait for him." personnage is the real subject of the verb, U being only the grammatical subject.

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12. dépntéi, members of the French CJumibre des Députés^ or National House of Représentatives.

16. croquerong le marmot, " we sball bave to walt." Oroquer is bere ased in tbe sensé of " to sketcb " (from eroguia), and tbe expression is explained by an ancient babit tbat young painters bad of sketcbing grotesque fîgares on tbeir walls wbile waiting for somebody.

20. oriflammes. A word tbat can bardly be said to bave any spécial meaning in onr day. It was a red silk banner tbat tbe Abbé of St. Denis presented to tbe old Frencb kings wben tbey were going to war.

22. bronhaha, "bubbub," an onomatopoetic word. fanfare, ** flourisb of trampets/' is beld by some to be anotber example of tbe same^figure.