CHAPTER IX

65 8 Tout êbaubis, quite dumfounded.

66 5 Filait ses douze nœuds à Vheure, was going at

the rate of twelve knots an hour.

66 14 La Soute aux poudres, the powder-room.

66 15 Fichtre! (familiar expression) hang it! confound it!

66 18 Patatras ! (onomatopeia) Bang !

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66 26 Après une douzaine de cabrioles, after a dozen

of somersaults.

67 16 Loin de perdis la tramontane, far f rom getting

confused. . .

68 11 Ça donne la chair de poule (or, rather, la peau

de poule) , tins makes flesh creep.

69 6 Ferré sur la géographie, well acquainted with

his geography.

Moricauds, the darkies.

Se trémousser, to frisk about.

Après qiCil eut bu à tire-larigot, after he had drunk hard. . .

71 5 Tout ça c'est des bêtises (pop. exp.), ail that is nothing but joking.

71 14 D'emblée, ail at once.