Qui regagnait aussi. — Who was also going back to

6. Cela ne vous gênerait pas prodigieusement. — It could not be such a terribly great annoyance to you.

7. Un garde-chasse de mes amis. — A game-keeper, a friend of mine. See Grammar, p. 65, § 6.

8. Où j'ai fait un fier déjeuner. — Where I've had a famous breakfast. Fier is, literally, proud, but is used by careless speakers very much like

the English words famous, precious, &c. Faire un déjeuner, un dîner, un souper, is to take or eat a breakfast, dinner, supper.

9. De si bon. — That was so good. For this use of de, see Grammar, p. 228, § 2.

10. Une soupe a la bière. — Beer-soup. For this use of à, see Grammar, p. 233, § 5.

11. Ah! bien, oui, une soupe; mieux que ça! — Soup! no, indeed ! better thanthat! Ah! bien, oui! is used in a very familiar style fbr a strong négation. Ça is a familiar contraction of cela.

12. Choucroute. — Sour-krout. This word is derived from the German sauerhraut, by a strange misconception of the meaning of the two parts of the German word. As sauerhraut is cabbage prepared in a certain way, it was natural, for those using it, to mistake the adjective sauer, pronounced soor, in some parts of Switzerland, for the noun chou (cabbage), so that if the word choucroute be analyzed, it virtually means cabbage-cabbage. There is a similar blunder in the formation, from the French écrevisse, of the English word crayfish, afterwards still fkrther corrupted into crawfish. The name of the American fish alewife, corrupted from an Indian word of a similar sound, is another instance of this tendency.