en trompette : curled up

Page 80. 1. une puce me démange : a flea has been biting me. — 2. le mit en travers: held it out. — 3. le général Hoche: General Hoche was one of the most distinguished commandera of the French

Republic. He defeated the Austrians at Weissemburg in 1793 and compelled them to withdraw from Alsace. He died in 1797 at the âge of twenty-nine.

Page 81. 1. le roi de Prusse : Frederick William II. was king of Frussia from 1786 to 1797. — 2. à sourire tout bas: to chuckle. — 3. les yeux plissés : with a sly look in his half-closed eyes. This expression is about équivalent to fermant à demi les yeux avec finesse used on page 19. Compare also en plissant ses petits yeux, p. 86, and dont les yeux se plissèrent, p. 141. — 4. arrive: corne hère. — 5. comme des bienheureux : happy as larks. — 6. rouler : to upset — 7. cramponnées aux patins : grasping the runners. Patin usually means a skate. — 8. filant par-dessus les rampes : spinning down the slopes.

Page 83. 1. tu jouais à la drogue, tu remuais les dés pour la bonne chance, tu battais la diane : y ou used to play split-stick, shake dice for good luck, and beat the réveille. La drogue is a game of cards played by soldiers. The loser has to wear upon his nose a split i

stick called drogue . — 2. à la grande halte : at the long (noon-day) hait.

Page 84. 1. Klopstock : A German poet born in 1724. He has j

been called the Father of German Poetry. He died in 1803. !