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Page 12. — 1. On n’en fait plus sur ce gabarit, #0 more of this kind are found; it., ‘no more of this model are made.”

2. qu'est-ce qu’il peut avoir ? wa’ can be the matter with him? . je t’en souhaite, 7 hope you may get it.

. marche vent arrière. sai/ing before the wind. . du train dont, a7 he rate. . boire un coup, # go nder, to be drowned; lit., “to drink a draught.” . n’importe, #0 satter, just the same. — 8. sa peau = sa vie.

Page 18.— 1. a-t-il la vie dure! ke dies hard!

2. ça me fait encore quelque chose, #af fouches me some anyway.

3. Tonnerre de Brest, &y “under. The terrific noise made by the batteries of Brest, a military port on the Western coast of France, has very likely given rise to this expression.

4. qui ne lui allaient pas à La cheville, 40 were not half as good as ke ; lit., ‘who did not come up to his ankle.”

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