matelote normande, a Norman chowder

Page 2. — I. rasé contre Xjtatyflat on the groundy crouchittg. 2. fit = dit.

Page 8. — I- pas mal aisé, " not badly easy ; " trans., quite easy.

Page 4. — I. par tous les soleils, by the sun ofevery clime,

2. il écartait un peu les jambes en marchant, he walkedwith a rolling

gait ; lit., " spread his legs in walking." Page 5, — I. qui n'en pouvait mais, who could not help it. \ com-

mon idiom in which mais retains its old meaning of *' more."

2. retira sous sa tente, allusion to the account in Homer's Iliad of Achilles withdravdng to his tent when insulted by Agamemnon.