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Aïs débotté, vpon our arrivai

13. Une chasse au cliien courant! une meute! to^ynotCunderstood) a real hunt, a hunt wUh hounda, a pack of them,

14. Les bois de Roquéfavour, Roquefavour, a town in the département of BoucheS'dvnRhâne.'Roqu^SLyour has a famous Roman aqueduct.

Page 42. 1. J'en oubliai les prouesses promises, the idea of going on a real hunting party with a pack of hounds made Clemenceau forget the other promised party with the pointer of the café de Marseille and the much boasted himting ability (prouesses) of that dog.

2. les arches prodigieuses, the gtgantic arches of the Roman aqueduct of Roquefavour.

3. Dix hommes bien découplés, ten hig strapping men, with gaiters halfway up to the waist, padded with leather^ red-belied, and with rifles everywhere.

4. n y a des griffons grands et petits, tksre are griffons (long-haired pointers), large and smaU, terriers, strange mongrels.

5. c'est le chamigue, un lévrier jaime des Baléares, chamigue, a name of the Provençal dialect, meaning a hound as defined hère T-Baléares, the Balearic Islands,m the Mediterranean, a Spanish province, capital Palma.

6. avec de rares poils longs, etc., with scant, shaggy haïr like that of a worn-otU hrush,

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