dit l'Echasse, called Longshanks. See vocabulary

4. boulangers, épiciers, etc., a collection of tradesmen and pro fessional men suggestive of anything but martial qualities. For the notaire as an essentially anti-heroic type, cf. Labiche, Voyage de M. Perrichon, Act III, scène 10. The pharmacien has never survived the ridicule heaped upon his prototype, Monsieur Fleurant, the apothicaire, The writers of the Naturalistic School hâve immortalized him, Daudet as Bézuquet in Tartarin de Tarascon, and Flaubert as Monsieur Homais in Madame Bovary.

Page 144. — 1. qu'est pas, popular for qui n'est pas.

2. Outrez, German pronunciation of ouvrez. In this and the following speeches of the Prussian soldier, substitute in gênerai v for/, j or g for ch, c for g, p for b, b for /, d for t, and / for d.

Page 145. — 1. ché =/«.