quelque contre-mine — 'some counterplot/ 6. ce

don Guritan-là — Expressing contempt. '

89. 3. Dame! — Interj., 'Bless me!' 'Egad!' 11. Dont la barbe fleurit — May be translated, * With a hideous beard/ etc.

90. 5. yen ai peur — ironical, ' I am afraid so.' 19. on sait votre façon — Equivalent to our * I know your ways/ 31. patatras — ^A word supposed to imitate the sound of a person falling from a ladder.

9L 21. procès-verbaux — 'police records/

92. 20. les deux châteaux d'or — The two castles denoting the Castilles in heraldry on the royal arms of { Spain.