avec ça, ' lo boot ' (lit. • added to that

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100. 8. nous nous serrons le ventre (lit. ' we tighten our belt

in order to alleviate our hunger '), ' we hâve to go without, or with very little, food. '

9. il écorche sa femme, ' he flays his wife alive,' ' he vitupérâtes his wife.' Note the figurative écorcher in contradistinction to lisser affectueusement.

,, 14. et son père . . de dire (understood) : see note p. 62, 1. 14.

,, 20. je le chanterais sur les toits, ' I would sing it from the house-tops,' viz. ' I would let everybody know. '

,, 28. laissez faire, 'bideye.'

101. 4. lui fait la leçon, ' schools, scolds him ' (lit. ' gives him the

lectm-e he deserves ' ).