matelote normande, a Norman chowder

Page 2. — I. rasé contre terre, yfe?/ on the ground, crotéching, 2. fit = dit.

Page 3. — I. pas mal aisé, " not badly easy ; " trans., quite easy.

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

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

gait.

Page 5. — I. qui n'en pouvait mais, who could not help il, A commun idiom in which mais retains its old meaning of " more."

2. retira sous sa tente, allusion to the account in Homer*s Uiad of Achilles withdrawing to his tent when insuit ed by Agamemnon.