faire une battue à la casquette : go cap-shooting

13. il y aurait eu de quoi le faire mourir : // would hâve been enough to kill him. Compare the syntax of le in this passage with that of lui in pour les lui faire chanter, chap. 3, note 5.

14. Don Quichotte. Don Quixote, the hero of Cervantes' famous romance, having filled his mind with taies of knightly adventure, donned a suit of armor, and with his fat and joUy little squire, Sancho Panza, rode up and down his native Spain in imitation of his models of chivalry.

15. Indien Sioux. The Sioux Indians, of the northem border of the United States.

16. Touareg. The Tuaregs are a clan inhabiting a large séries of oases in the Sahara south of Algeria.

17. Abmzzes. The Abruzzi^ a mountainous district of central Italy, was long noted as a resort of bandits.

18. Pécaïre! qu'est-ce qu'ils seraient venus faire? What in the world would they hâve expected to do ? Pécaïre is a Provençal exclamation, marking either surprise or pity. See La Chèvre de M, Seguin, note 17.