ces grands collégiens héroïques, thèse big heroic

schoolboys.

8. . . .tte doivent bisquer, as to doivent cf. page 58 line 8 (note); bisquer is schoolboy slang indicating that the person to whom the wordis applied must be disappointed. An English or American private might say: *I'll bet you they are mad.' The verb bisquer has been traced to a G^ermanic source. Cf. Anglo-Saxon haisc, sour.

60.— 4. . . *une olive, an olive shaped omament of the military bat.

. . .genre Mannlicher, style Mannlicher (name of the inventor.

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60.— 7. à poudre haîistite, a very powerful powder of récent invention.

Note, how by juxtaposition, as in *genre Mannlicher\ and by meansof the préposition *à* the French lan^uage conveys technioal descriptions in a singulary concise manner.