Ouais: Heyday

23. Lait virginal: Nun'.s cream. Brimborions: Fooleries. 'The

Word brimborium, wliich we make use of when we say that one is .saying his briinborions [prayei's badly pronounccd], is derived from breviarium.'—V&îiq\\iiiV.

2. Tlic expression, le lard d'une douzaine de cochons, though

wanting in reflnement, is somewhat appropriatcly placcd in the moutli of a simple-mindcd and ignorant citizen lilie Gorgibus.

7. Museau, from lat. niusollus, musus : Nose (face), muzzle of a dog.

10. Vous avois-Je jms, etc. : The négative ne, whicli would bc

required now, was then supprcssed both in verse and in prose. 18. Et qu'y trouvez-vous à redire ? And what do you see in them to

findfault with?