le poil de la bête, the very hair ofihe créature

5. ce pauvre Zéro va me faire faute, / will miss poor Zéro ; comp. with page i, note i.

Page 71« — I. fût, should belong.

Page 72. — i. de première main, atfirsthand; i. e., ofiheproducer,

2. chef-lieu de canton. France is divided into eighty-seven departments,

each department into arrondissements, and the latter into cantons ; trans.,

chief town of the district.

Page 78. — i. accentua ses lignes, showed itsform more plainly.

Page 74* — A deux fois ; the préposition hère has no translatable force.

Page 75* — i. ce serait capable, wouldbe apt,

Page 80. — I. n'était que de seconde force, was not very well up. 2. les questions ne tarissaient point, questions did not stop^ were never at an end; lit., ** never dried up," "were never exhausted.''

Page 8h — I. port d'attache, home-port.

2. la rincette et le pousse-café, small glasses of brandy or some cordial, usoally taken after drinking coffee ; rincette, lit., "rinsing'* ; poussecafé, lit., " coffee-driver, pusher."

3. mon billet = ma parole (slang). — 4. bien entendu, of course.

Page 82. — i. vous en avez pour longtemps, >^^ are §oing to stay hère long.