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7. où le Japonais dédaigneux du tour, in which the Japanese potter who shuns the lathe likes to mark, toith his féminine and délicate hand, the discreet imprint of his fugitive sensation, passion, and life.

8. Ils vivaient d'une vie monotone et tournante, they lived a monoU onous, revohnng life,

9. tous les trois ignoblement couverts de terre jaune, the three of them shamefvlly covered with yeUow clay, the man, the horse, and the dog. Note hère the three différent French words, cheveux, crins, poUs, réndered by only one English work, hair, if translated literally, the hair (of the man), the horse hair, the curly hair (of the dog).

10. la provenance de glaise changeant, when the day toaa of différent oriçin, and consequently of différent color.

11. ces trois prolétaires • • • . le quatrième et le cinquième Etat, the three proletarians on two and four paws, i.e., the potter, the dog, and the horse. To the fourth estaie {quatrième État) belongs the man, too poor to belong to the third "Tiers-état" or bourgeoisie, the middle classes as we would say) . For the horse and doR, stxll moi^ iïàs«tî?c\<fe >i>MNCL'»Owi tbkssl^

Clemenceau invents a àew stëp down the social ladderytHejl/^esto^e, le cinquième ÉtcU), See also page 40, note 2.

Page 40. 1. La béte .... creusait quelque vieux souvenir, th^

heast brooded over some old rememhrance.

2. le Premier État, celui qui vit des autres, the first estate, the one which lives on othera, The poodle in the story would hâve been entitled, accordîng to Clemenceau, on account of his idleness, to stand at the top of the social hierarchy (the first estate), while Clemenceau ranks the poodle's companions, the working dogs, among the fifth eatate (le cinquième État). Clemenceau evidently f rames those terms from the well-known and historical name "Tiers-état" (the middle class)j one of the three constituent bodies of the French Assemblée Nationale in the days of the French Révolution, the other two bodies being le Clergé (the Clergy)y and la Noblesse (the Nobility).