bouche bée, gaping

3. la pointe aigrelette, etc., the tartneaa of the light white wine.

4. Pagora rustique, the rustic assenibly, The a{iora was the public forum and assembly of the Athenians.

5. la dive bouteille, the divine hottUt so chnstened by François Rabelais (14907-1553) in his burlesque and allegoricàl Gargantwa and Paniagruelj where the hero, Pantagruel, goes for wisdom to the temple and oracle of the holy bottle, which stands, very likely, for a symbol of science.

6. aboutit ... à une question de clientèle, cornes . . . fo a question of who huys and seUs, a question of business practice.

Page 70. 1. la planche, hoardsavdng.

Page 71. 1. des états d'humanité de passage, transient states of mankind.

Page 72. 1. Carlsbad, a famous health resort with hot springs in Bohemia.

2. Bohême, at that time a province in the Austro-Hungarian Empire and now, since 1918, part of the independent Czecho-Slovakian Republic.