le petit yacher, see page 5, note

3. Que je regarde quoi? Supply vous voulez before this clause.

4. Ayec ça que etc. As if that were a clever thing to do ! Malin, which originally meant " evil ", has come to mean *' clever ", " hard to do."

Page 8* — I. 11 me l'a pensé, of course by humorous analogy with il me Va dit,

a. A tes souhaits, like Dieu te bénisse î below, is used as a polite expression of good will to a person who sneezes. Good luck to you ! God bless you ! being the equivalent translations. Sneezes have been considered omens since the earliest days of history. Damoiseau takes the gun shots for the noise of Boniface sneezing.

Page 9. — I. mettons, used idiomatically for "setting down " an approximate figure in an estimate ; like our " let us say."