je n'y vais pas de main morte, / am starting in briskly

Page 48. — i. fort chasseur devant l'Etemel, compare the Book of Genesis, X, 9, which says of Nimrod, great-grandson of Noah: "He was a mighty hunter before the Lord."

Page 49. — i. porcelaine de Saxe, we speak of this as Dresden china, rather than as Saxon. The Royal manufactory is at Meissen, 14 miles from Dresden, which is the capital of the kingdom of Saxony (now one of the states of the German empire).

Page 60. — I. honneur, the expression is completed in the