que voulez-vous? 'what else can you expect

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1.4. s^ il est content! tîi penses bien ; 'of course, he is pleased'.

1. 13. ce n^ est pas comme moi, 'it is very différent with me'.

1. 17. vieux hanneto7t, 'old butterfly'; lit. 'old cock-chafer'; haimeton (from Gemi. Hahn) is used in the sensé of giddy fellow; étourdi comme tin hanneton= 'as wild as a March hare'.

1. 21. sans le verre... ^ii it were not for the glass of schnaps'.

1. 34. montez le drapeau noir, 'hoist the black flag over the hut' (to show that it is used as a hospital).

1. 36. race de crétins, 'race of crétins'; crétin, 'crétin', 'idiot', is a Swiss Word from the Grisons patois derived either from christiaiius ( = innocent) or from Germ. kreidling ( = chalk-faced), owing to the white complexion of crétins.

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