CHAPTER VI

Goémon, sea-weed.

Une gorgée, a draught.

Tu frises la dizaine, you are not far from ten years.

Nota. — The word friser means both "to curl" and "to border on" (Paul Blouët).

41 11 Je m'enfiche (popular), I do not care for it.

43 11 Chercher midi à quatorze heures, to look for difficulties where there are none.

Nota. — In some parts of Italy time is counted from one to twenty-four hours from sunset.

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Un tapinois, slyly.

Goussets, waist-pockets.

Battre la semelle, to warm their feet.

Mordicus (Latin expression), obstinately.

Autant qu'une poule de l'embouchure d'une clarinette, an odd expression for not at ail ; lit., as much as a hen for a mouthpiece of a clarinet.

47 15 Les ragaillardir, to cheer them up.

48 10 Bourrées de la St. Jean. During the sixteenth

century at the feast of St. Jean a huge fire was kindled on the Place St. Jean in Paris. This fire was made of bourrées, or small fagots.

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50 23 Piauler aux oreilles (pop. exp.), to whine about

one's ears.

51 11 Mâts de cocagne, greasy pôles.

51 14 Ladrerie, stinginess.

51 17 Claque ) . .,

51 19 Calotte \ "« on the ear-

51 25 Se débrouiller, to get out of trouble.

51 26 Geindre (see piauler).

54 1 Un homme bien appris ne met jamais les pieds

dans le plat, a well-bred man always knows

how to behave.

54 5 Montant sur ses ergots, riding on his high horse.

55 4 L'onglée, numbness of the finger-ends.

55 11 L'étude des sùnples qui était, avec la chique et le fil en quatre. . . , the study of plants which was, with his chewing - tobacco and his brandy, etc.