conserve de pois, ‘ canned peas

8. 8.—Tenez, as an interjection, admits of a variety of translations. Say here ‘ By the way.!

17.—prétentions, ‘vanities” A revoir is for au revoir. 22.--dévote, generally, as here, in a depreciatory sense, 80.—Que veux-tu? Cf. p. 8, 1, 18.

33.—patati patata, onomatopoetic expression used to in- . dicate trivial talk. Found also in the form et Patati et patata.

84.—chapelet, ‘ string.’ 84.—à dépendre les oreilles, ‘enough to make you deaf.' Lit. ‘enough to take your ears off.’

Page. Line 9. 2.—tienst ‘I can tell you!!

1d 9.—blanchette, Diminutive of blanche, Another name 0, for Minette, because she was white, 11.—Ostrogoth, ‘rude fellow.' The #h is silent, h 13.—0 bell’ alma innamoratn ! ‘O beautiful soul in love.’ ee Taken from some Popular Italian opera of the j time.

| 16.—Tu es bon là, toi! : Don't be ridiculous !*: What ri a question !*

F 17.—le théâtre de la foire. Simple, undignified forms of

dramatic entertainment, so called from the Joires Of Saint-Germain and of Saint-Laurent in Paris. In the théâtre de la Joire there were Punch and Judy shows, performances of mountebanks, c'owns and skight-of-hand men, as well as comic songs and the represeutation of farces, melodrama, etc,