les petits couteaux, 'the lancets

1. 31. rien que cette scie anglaise, 'this English saw alone' ; scie verbal subst. from scier, Lat. sccare.

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1. 5. ça va chauffer, 'we are going to hâve warm work'. 1. 12. lui ferait de l'ejfet, ' would alTect him'.

1. 18. Praga, the eastern suburb of Warsaw, capital of Poland, was assaulted by Suwarroff, 3 Nov. 1794; its wooden houses spcedily took fire ; the bridges over the Vistula broke down under the mass of the fugitive Pôles ; ten thousand soldiers fell on the spot, nearly as many were made prisoners and above 12,000 citizens of every âge and sex perished in the fiâmes or by the sword of the conquc-ors.

1. 20. le nez en F air, 'sniffing'; for diff. beiween en and dans, see p. 80, 1. 1%.

1. 22. ce seront des glissades, ' it will be bad falls ' ; glissades is derived hom glisser, "to slip'; the sutSx a</t' generally expresses a collection of objects of the same kind, e. g. balustrade, colonnade, etc.