Au rabais. — At a reduced price

16. J'ai fait fèche de tout bou. — I haVe tried everything; Ihave «ft no bU>u9 ontomed.

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17. On leur m postera bim d'autra. En poster à q.u gencnDy means, to pardon, to excuse ; bat hère the context renden the meanio^ perfectly clear.

18. Vingt-cinq Lyon, — i.e-, twenty-^ve thares in the Lyon» Bailroad.

19. La mouche. — Prendre la mouche is to take oflFence snddenly; alluding, probably, to the pettishness generally dispîayed by personi ridding themselves of the annoyanee of Aies. Compare the phrase, Quelle mouche i'a piqué.

20. — // t 'aurait envoyé protitener. — He wotdd hâve sent you aboat yonr business.

21. Qu'est-ce que lu chantes t — What nonsense are you talking?

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22 lit l'en tant donné. — They bave had a time of it.

23. Bur graves. — Hère used lightly for " old men, old fellows," iB allusion to the nlav of that narae by Victor Hugo, in which four générations of Burgraves appear. Veuve CUquot is the name of a celebrated wine, as also chablis, used in the same connection by Tiburce in Bcene 8.

24. Bilan. — Balance-sheet. Déposer son bilan {au greffe du tribunal de commerce) is équivalent to " To déclare one's self a * .^-Êrupt." Je hti établirai mon bilan may be translated, " I will lay bêiore him me état» of my finances."