les parties de bouchon, ... le jeu de galoche. The

game of cork is played as follows: a cork is set standing endwise on the ground and each player puts a piece of money of some value on the top of it. Then, standing at a fixed distance from the pile, they try in turns to knock it down by throwing at it another coin of different shape or color. When one succeeds in doing it, he gets ail the pièces of money that are nearer to his coin than to the cork. Then the players try to throw the coins they used as quoits, between the upset cork and the scattered remaining pièces of monçy so that it shall fall nearer to the latter than to the former. If they succeed, they win them. The game continues till the last piece is won in this way.

39, 3. la place du Château-d’Eau is to-day called la place de la République , one of the finest squares in Paris. — Lui. Note the emphatic use of the disjunctive personal pronoun lui instead of il.

4. il faut trop d’argent, i. e., il faut avoir beaucoup d’argent ( pour jouer au bouchon ou à la galoche ).