Le Tarascon Musical

1. vieilleries sentimentales : hackneyed sentimental songs^ sentimental " chestnuts^^

2. recezeur d'enregistrement : register of deeds. In France, however, this officer registers not only deeds, but notes, mortgages, receipts, bonds, contracts of ail kinds, and orders of courts.

3. si j'étais-t-invisible. The euphonie " t " is introduced for comic efîect. Such ungrammatical combinations are often made by the illiterate in the conscious striving after correctness ; as, in English, we sometimes hear garding for garden.

4. et pourtant vous pensez s'ils doivent les connaître depuis quarante ans qu'ils se les chantent : andyetyou can imagine how well they must know them after singing them to each other for forty years.

5. c'était le diable pour les lui faire chanter : // was a deuce of a task to get him to sing them.