Liverpool, British port on the river Mersey

3. à la guerre comme à la guerre, a familiar French proverb meaning, let us take war as it is and make the best of it.

Page 35. — i. ce poilu que je surprends à donner, that poilu whom I caught giving. Notice the historical present indicative and the use of preposition à before the infinitive, a construction peculiar to verbs of surprise, prendre, surprendre, attraper and a few others, the better to emphasize the action denoted by the infinitive.

Page 37. — I. Nos poUus n'ont pas froid aux yeux, our poilus are wide-awake.

2. de conclure, historical infinitive, translate as past definite.

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Page 88. — i. H veut en avoir le cœur nçt, he wants the matter made clear,

2. ezpansif et tout en paroles, who talks much and feels little.

Page 89. — i. une bonne figure de territorial, a good-natured looking territorial,

2. pépère, a diminutive for père (familiar). Translate old man.

3. Ce sac finissait par m'intriguer, translate à la fin ce sac m'intriguait.

Page 40. — I. parler obus, to talk shells. Compare parler affaires and the English " to talk shop." Parler is regularly followed by de,