ne saurait, conditional of savoir = #e peut

° 13. porteurs d’eau, a profession that has disappeared to-day. It is often referred to in the comedies of the first part of the nineteenth century. See Labiche’s Ze Misanthrope et l’Auver- £nat.

25. Épinal : the capital of the department of Vosges near the frontier of Alsace-Lorraine. The ‘pictures of Epinal’ are little childish stories printed on cheap sheets of paper and roughly illustrated that children admire in the windows of small stores.