ils prennent . . . sur la main, /#ey full on the reins

Page 86,— 1. à laquelle . . . aurait dû rendre des points, 4564 . .. would have had to acknowledge to be superior to his own. Allusion to 4 game of billiards in which the superior playet handicaps himself by giving his opponent à certain number of points to start with. In order to beat he then has to make not only more points than his opponent, but in addition the points with which the latter started.

2. pratiqua d’abord une descente des lieux, #ade first of all an examination of the place (where the theft had taken place).

4 je ne sais quoi, see page 25, hôte 1.