JD^une seule traite, Without stopping

21. AUer courir la bague, Idiomatic expression, referring to the game of the ring. A ring is hung up on a post, and the object of the g^me is to remove the ring by means of a spear, the players being either on foot or on horseback ; at the popular faits they ride on wooden horses. Thus: aller courir la bague, to amuse one's self.

30.-:- 3* Les serpents à sonnettes et les femmes à sonnets, Play of words impossible to render in English. Serpent à sonnettes, rattle-snake. Femmes à sonnets, women who write sonnets.

81. — 4. Si je l'avais laissée en friche, Idiom : if I had not made use of it. 16. Aussi bien, The more so as.