passer par les armes, to exécute, shoot

Page 52. — i. prennent à témoin, appealto ; lit., " take for witness."

2. litote. This figure of speech consists in saying less than is really meant.

3. brave à trois -^tIs, /ire-eater, a figure probably taken from velours à trois poils, velvet woven with three silk threads.

Page 53. — i. faisait feu de tous les ^OMmaxon^ worked the papers for ail they were worth ; lit., " fired ofî ail the papers."

Page 54. — i. Machiavel. The name of Machiavelli, the Italian statesman and historian, and authorof the ce! ebratedbook on diplomatie conduct entitled Le Prince, has become somewhat unjustly the patronymic for ail uncrupulously cunning men, because of the principles of despotism and expediency laid down in that work. Machiavelli was bom in Florence in 1469 and died in the same city in 1527.

Pag'e 60. — I . malins, kncwing otus,

Pag'e 61. — I. bouchon, a favorite game among soldiers, consisting in knocking pennies off a cork, at a distance of a f ew paces, with a heavy coin. Piquet, a scientific card-game for two.

Page 62. — i . coryza, cold in the head.

Page 64. — I. faites l'appel nominal, caîl tJie roll.