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Page 98. 1. sur leur ventre rebondi : on their convex sides.
Page 100. 1. ecrevisae : Translate by lobster or beet. But écrevi88e means prawn (jpalasmon serratus). It is highly prized for the table; the American prawn (palcsmon vulgaris) is much smaller.
Page 101. 1. il enjamba l'échelle du tralnean : he stepped into the sleigh: he did not touch the step (^édielle). — 2. le traîneau fila sans bmit, remontant la me : the sleigh glided off up the street noiselessly.
Page 102. 1. Un vendredi: it being Friday. — 2. ooxnette: (morning-) cap.
Page 103. 1. mi conp : un verre de vin. — 2. Faterland : Voterland, German for Fatherland. — 3. batailleur: fighter, bully.— 4. aieiazeller an cachet vert : Gleiszeller with green seal. Oleiszeller is a kind of wine named from the place where the grax>e is grown.
Page 104. 1. Tancien: old fellow, comrade. — 2. Ça rapporte moins que de prêter à gros intérêts : that is less profitable than to lend at high rates of interest. On page 7, Richter is called the greatest usurer in the country. — 3. Koffel avait on petit coup de trop: Koffel had had a glass too many. — 4. la déesse Raison : Reference is made to the worship of Reason, celebrated for the first time in Kotro- Dame, m Paris, November 10, 1703, and afterwards extended throng out France. — 6. du Maximum: The reference here is to the "Law of the Maximum " made by the Convention in 1703. It forbade charging more than a certain price for the necessaries of life, snch as grain.
Fagb 105. 1. une et indivisible : The French Republic was declared **one and indivisible " by the Convention, September 25, 1792.
Page 106. 1. caporal Schlague : Corporal Flog. The German word Schlag means a blow. The flogging of soldiers by caporaitx schlagtieurs was abolished at the time of the Revolution. — 2. sanaculottes : The French Republicans of 1793 wore pantaloons instead of knee-breeches (^culotte), and were therefore called sans-culottea. They accepted the epithet as synonymous with patriot.
Page 107. 1. il y a de la resBOiirce : it is possible to do something. 2. sanvent : Subjunctive. — 3. Et prenez bien garde que ce n'est pas impossible du tout : and, mind you, it is not at all impossible. — 4. florin : A silver coin worth about 42 cents. — 6. thalers : A thaler is a German coin worth about 72 cents.
Page 108. 1. par esprit de calcul : with premeditation. — 2. bassesse : low degree, down.
Page 110. 1. H se tenait le derrière dans le coin i he stood backed up in the comer. — 2. à la tignasse : by the wool, as we say. — 3. d'un coup de dent sec il lui faisait claquer la patte : with one sharp bite he made his paw crack.
Page 111. 1. enfoncée sous terre: sunk below the street.—
2. H n^y a pas trop de place : there isn^t any too much room. —
3. baldaquin: canopy, a covering over â, bed from which curtains were suspended. — 4. enfoncement: recess. — 5. martre, fouine, belette : pine marten, stone or beech marten, weasel. — 6. retournées : turned inside out.
Page 112. 1. montant: setting up. — 2. la joue tirée: cheeks drawn in.
Page 113. 1. respectable : to be respected.
