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Page 71, — 1. fût, 540477 beiong.

Page 72. — 1. de première main, a first hand; i.e., of the producer.

2. chef-lieu de canton. Franceis divided into eighty-seven departments, each department into arrondissements, and the latter into cantons ; trans. chief town of the district.

Page 78. — 1. accentua ses lignes, szowed its form more plainly.

Page 74.— À deux fois; the preposition here has no translatable force.

Page 75.— 1. ce serait capable, wou/7 be apr.

Page 80. — 1. n’était que de seconde force, was nof very well up.

2. les questions ne tarissaient point, gæesions did not stop, vers never at an end; lit., ‘“ never dried up,” “were never exhausted.”?

Page Si. — r. port d'attache, 4ome-port.

2. la rincette et le pousse-café, small glasses of brandy or some cordial, usually taken after drinking coffee; rincette, lit, ‘“‘rinsing”; poussecafé, lit., ‘“ coffee-driver, pusher.”’

3. mon billet = #74 parole (slang). — 4. bien entendu, of course.

Page 82,— 1. vous en avez pour longtemps, you are going do stay

Bcre long.

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