a-t-il coutume, * is it his habit

1. 13. je ne Vai pas demandé, ' I didn't ask (it)'; /.Ê'='it', not 'him' which would have been lui.

1. 17. tiens, 'Here!' à V arçon, 'in the holsters'. arçon, properly = ' saddlebow', derived from the Latin arcus, a bow — a saddlebow being a pièce of arched wood.

1. 18. y, ' them '. Notice that toucher in the sensé of to meddle with, interfère with, requires the dative.

1. 22. au troisième, — étage is understood — 'on the third floor*.