bachots, barges

4. partout de longues gaules, etc., everywhere long fiahing roda are thrust forwardf fvU of cunning lures, fastened to a wiUing arm a^ to a handle.

5. les désirs de la jeune innocence, etc. ^ the wishea of the young guileless fish stupefied at its svdden flight intô the air.

6. Les miroitements d'oblique lumière, etc., the oblique reflections of the light 8o dear to Clavde Monet set fiâmes andfire a-dancing on the hiHowing water, Claude Monetj see page 85, note 1.

7. Du haut des tours gothiques, etc., from the top of the gothic towers (of Notre-Dame), the Beast of the Apocalypse (a gargoyle) projecls its saeering mauth ovfr a river of moUen métal which loses itself in a flaming sky.

8. qui demain, qui hère refers to vapeur and is used instead of the more correct laquelle.

9. Et pendant que, etc., and while the resistless carrent carries away for the regenerOtioh^ of the earth a confused mass of hits of wrécked Vives.

Page 58. 1. Roulotte, gypsy wagon.

2. qui s'étale en nappe frétillante, which spreads its rippling surface.