c'est a peine si j'avais donné; see page 6, note

l66 NOTES [P. 64-79

Pagre 64. — i. kpioda joints, witàâû^/i/eeL Hehsid^one atone jump from non-commissioned offîcer to captain of a fire company.

Page 65« — i. deusse, for deuxy is the common pronunciation of drill sergeants. — fixe, ey es front; auche, loi gauche.

Pagre 66. — i. à ganche alignement, left dress! 2. pantalon à la hussarde, cavalry trousers^ tight at the ankle and wide at the knees like those of the Zouave uniform.

Page 67. — i. sur place, without moving from your place.

Page 68« — i. son sourire à lui; see page 40, note i.

Page 69. — i. esprit de corps, an expression often used in English because there is no exact English équivalent. It means the common spirit pervading the members of a body or association. In a collège it would be "collège spirit".

Page 71* — I. Algérie, Algeria has been a French colony since 1830. The natives hâve often been unruly.

Page 73. — i. Arbi, for Arabe, 2. Arche, for marche.

Page 74. — i. garçon de service, servant on duty.

Page 75* — i. autorités administratives, the *^ proviseur** and the "censeur",

2. classe de rhétorique. This was the next to the highest class ; so called because rhetoric, Le. the art of speaking, was formerly specially cultivated in this class. The highest class is called "phi' losophie" for a similar reason.