daudicant, limping

Page 66. 1. manoir embourgeoisé par la Révolution, the estâtes of the nobility were sold during the French Révolution, and a great many bourgeois became the new purchasers. This is a true réminiscence of Clemenceau as a child and an aUusion to the château de VAuhraie, the ancestral home of the Clemenceau family in Vendée.

2. le scieur de long, the scieur de long is the one who saws logs and trees de long^ i.e., in the whole length (for lumber), as opposed to what would be, if any such term existed in French, the scieur de large, to designate him who saws wood in the usual way, i.e., across or in hreadth.

3. dit Six-Sous, alias or nicknamed **Three Pence*' or "The NickeV*

4. le metteur en œuvre, the man who lays out the worky hère, the carpenter for whom Six-Sous saws the boards.

Page 67. 1. Gladstone, William E. Gladstone (1809-1898), the British statesman, used to play the wood-cutter in his own forest of Hawarden and made the statement, "To fell some trees is the only way to protect the woods," meaning that there is no cultivation or progress possible without some kind of pruning and hoeing.

2. donnait d'ime hache meurtrière, attacked or struck xoith his demUy ax.