CHAPTER VIL
Page 66. 1. de ce bas monde : of this lower world. — 2. battait le beurre : was chnrning. — 3. fixe: without stirring, quiet 4. casaque : a cloak with wide sleeves.
Page 67. 1. Un pauvre diable: apoor fellow. — 2. hauptmann: German for capitaine. — 3. H se sera retiré : he must hâve withdrawn. — 4. sans trouble : in quiet. — 5. A cette heure, il faudrait dresser Pacte mortuaire; je ne peux pas vérifier de quoi cet homme est mort ; cela n'entre pas dans mes attributions : but now we must make ont a certificat» of death. I cannot certify as to the cause of this man's death ; that is not one of my fonctions. — 6. je n'eus rien de plus pressé que de m' échapper et de les suivre à la piste : I never was in greater haste than I was to escape and f ollow in their track. — 7. la curiosité du diable: an irrésistible curiosity. Note that diable is used with far more freedom in French than the corresponding word in English. The same is tnie of Dieu. — 8. le garde champêtre : (field-) constable. It is the duty of this officer to guard property in the country.
Page 68. 1. étuve : vapor-bath, sweating-room. — 2. chevroter : to bleat. — 3. déboula : scampered away .
Page 69. 1. se détachant en noir sur cette lumière : standing out in black against this light. — 2. il faudrait le tirer un peu sur le devant : we must drag him forward a little. — 3. plaque : spot
Page 70. 1. avec sa grande tignasse en boudin: with his big sausage-like eue. Boudin is a kind of saosage, and en boudin refers to
the shape of the eue. Compare eelskin eue in English. — voilà le décès constaté : The manner of his death is established.
Page 71. 1. bouillon : beef-tea. — 2. la table de nuit : A kind of table invented in 1717. It was made to stand near a bed and held those things which a sick person might need during the night.
Page 72. 1. j'aurais quelque chose à vous demander : I should like to ask a favor of you.
CHAPTER VIH.
Page 74. 1. prairie communale : common. — 2. les reins plies :
bending f orward.
Page 75. 1. dessus : on the sied. —2. Himmelsfarth : A German word signifying Ascension (of Christ) ; hère a cry of warning for peuple to get out of the way. — 3. J'en avais des éblouissements : I was dazzled at the thought of it. — 4. C'est égal, arrivez toujours : no matter, corne on. — 5. le nez en l'air: looking up. — 6. schlittes: sleds used in getting wood down from the Vosges Mountains in Wasgau ; in French, traîneaux.
Page 76. 1. s'user: wear out. — 2. allongeait ses hanches:
stretched herself out, quickened her pace.
Page 77. 1. Frédéric IT: Frederick IL, called the Great, was king of Prussia from 1740 to 1786. — 2. schnaps : eau-de-vie, brandy. — 3. réduit à porcs: pigsty. — 4. haies vives: quickset hedges. — 5. cognac de France : French brandy. — 6. Regardez-moi : Moi is the so-called ethical dative. See page 19, note 2.
Page 78. 1. la houppe sur le front : with pompon in front. —
2. appuyés : resting. — 3. qui dépassait un peu de côté sa joue creuse : which stuck out sideways a little beyond his hollow cheek. Bemember that his back is towards the boys.
Page 79. 1. l'exercice : the manual. — 2. Arche ! Pan, pan, rantanplan. Une . . . deusse : March ! rub, dub, rubadubdub. One, two. Arche is for marche. Deusse is a drawn-out form of deux. —
