les yeux... yeux, * keeping bis eyes upon the Captain's

12. Saint Roch. According to the legend S. Roch, born at Montpclier in the i4lh ccntury, sold his possessions and starting on a pilgrimage to Rome devotcd himself to nursing the victims of the plague. When he fell ill himself, and was driven away from the city into a wood, his little dog, which had never left him, ran daily to the city and brought him a loaf of bread. In art he is regulaily rcpresentcd with his dog beside him.

13. la légende dorée, 'The Golden Legend.' The ' Legenda Aurea' is the Latin name of a well-known médiéval collection of lives of saints which has been translated into EngUsh, French, and other languages.

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12. chien couchant. It is not pos-sible to rcprcscnt this quilc accuralely in English ; chien couchant means l)oth a * setter ' and ' a fawning dog.' Perhaps the word ' hound ' is the best translation hère, as that word means both a kind of dog and a fawning créature. The modem writcr Cherbuliez in a récent bock says of a man who had tried every means of getting a favour that he wanted, ''Je me suis fait petit,

humble, plat, chien couchant..' 'I hâve made myself small, humbled myself, flattened myself, fawned upon him.'

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