CHAPTER XVI

Page 171. 1. sabretache : sabretasche ; a leathern case or pocket

suspended from the sword-belt of a dragoon.

Page 173. 1. recommander: to intercède for. — 2. le garde forestier : the forester. His duty is to see to the préservation of the forests. He is also called garde des bois.

Page 174. 1. Vous êtes des fous de vous faire du mauvais sang : you are f oolish to worry.

Page 175. 1. à leurs trousses: at their heels. — 2. le 8 nivôse,

an II : December 28, 1793. The e vents of the war mentioned in this letter are historical.

Page 177. 1. les conventionnels: members of the Convention, the législative body of the French Republic.

Page 178. 1. ambulances: field-hospitals.

Page 179. 1. reboucler: to strap up again.

Page 180. 1. Adjugé : A word used when a thing is sold at auction — gone. Hère it may be translated ours. — 2. Landrecies: A town in Nord, the north-eastern department of France.

Page 182. 1. au pas de course : on the run. Compare au pas de charge, page 124. — 2. quitter la partie: to give up the game. — 3. couper, trancher : to eut off , to slice off.

Page 183. 1. Pichegru : Charles Pichegra entered the artillery service of the Revolutionary army in 1790, and rose rapidly to the position of commander-in-chief of the army of the Rhine in 1793. He was arrested in 1797 for plotting with the royalist party, but escaped. Later he formed a plot against Napoléon 9 s life, was captured, imprisoned, and found strangled in his cell April 6, 1804.

Page 185. 1. les flaques de boue éclataient autour de nous comme des obus à chaque pas: at every step the muddy water splashed up about us like bursting shells.

Page 186. 1. effaré: beside himsell — 2. se démenant comme un bienheureux : jumping about in frantic delight.

Page 187. 1. Hé ! la grosse mère ! la jolie fille t par ici ! Hey, my good woman ! my pretty girl I this way. — 2. il a l'air bon enfant : ne looks like a good fellow.

Page 189. 1. noce: célébration, banquet.

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