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 fîlled his mind with taies of knightly adventure, donned a suit of armor, and with his fat and jolly little squire, Sancho Panza, rode up and down his native Spain in imitation of his models of chivalry.

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

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

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

18. Pécaîre 1 qu'est-ce qu'ils seraient venus faire ? What in the worîd would tkey hâve expected to do ? Pécdire is a Provençal exclamation, marking either surprise or pity. See La Chèvre de M, Seguin, note 17.