TABLEAU III

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The Third Tableau shows us the attack of the St Gothard ; the French gênerai Gudin repels the first assault of the Russians, but Suwarroff rallies his flying troops and leads them back to the cliarge ; the French yield at last and are forced back towards the Furca. A new character, the army surgeon Sthal, appcars hère for the first time, and through him we become acquainted with some of the rough and hard expériences of military life.

1. 4. une assise à droite, ' a pièce of level ground on the right ' ; assise is a verbal subst. from asseoir, Lat. assidere.

1. 6. des rochers à pic jusqu'aux nuages, 'steep rocks towering up to the skies'.

1. 10. embourbée jusqii aux essieux, ' imbedded in mud up to the axle-trees'; essieu in Old Fr. aixieu, from Lat. axicnlus.

1. 19. encore un coup d'épaule, ' once more your shoulders to the wheel'.

1. 22. des pierres, '(^ni) stones (under thewhecl)'; kibitk — 'czLrV (Russian).

1.1. à cette heure, 'now' { = à présent); tout à rheure=' prescnt\y\ à la bonne heure ='a\\ right', de bonne hc'ure='ea.T\y\

1. 17. Saint-A'icolas, 'Saint Nicholas', patron saint of the Russians.

1. 35. Sûrs le gobelet, 'bring out the gobiel '; sortir is hère used as a transitive verb.

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1. 6. mon pauvre yacob nen peut plus, 'my poor horse Jacob is donc up'.