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70, 31. "Mange-moi ça--ça t' fera du bien!"--"Eat that for me; it'll do you good!"

72, 1. Sais pas--Don't know.

72, 4. Père Polyphème--Father Polyphemus.

72, 12. ces messieurs--those gentlemen.

72, 22. "Hé! ma femme!"--"Hey! my wife!"

72, 23. "Voilà, voilà, mon ami!"--"Here, here, my friend!"

72, 24. "Viens vite panser mon cautère!"--"Come quick and dress my cautery!"

72, 27. café--coffee.

72, 32. "Oui, M'sieur Laferté"--"Yes, M'sieur Laferté."

72, 33. "Tire moi une gamme"--"Fire off a scale for me."

73, 3. "Ah! q' ça fait du bien!"--"Ah! that does one good!"

73, 20. "'Colin,' disait Lisette," etc.-- "'Colin,' said Lisette, 'I want to cross the water! But I am too poor To pay for the boat!' 'Get in, get in, my beauty! Get in, get in, nevertheless! And off with the wherry That carries my love!'"

75, 18. le droit du seigneur--the right of the lord of the manor.

75, 27. Àmes en peine--Souls in pain.

75, 28. Sous la berge hantée, etc. Under the haunted bank The stagnant water lies-- Under the sombre woods The dog-fox cries, And the ten-branched stag bells, and the deer come to drink at the Pond of Respite. "Let me go, Were-wolf!" How dark is the pool When falls the night-- The owl is scared, And the badger takes flight! And one feels that the dead are awake--that a nameless shadow pursues. "Let me go, Were-wolf!"

76, 29. "Prom'nons-nous dans les bois Pendant que le loup n'y est pas."

"Let us walk in the woods While the wolf is not there."

77, 7. pas aut' chose--nothing else.

77, 10. C'est plus fort que moi--It is stronger than I.

77, 20. "Il est très méchant!"--"He is very malicious!"

77, 26. "venez donc! il est très mauvais, le taureau!"--"come now! the bull is very mischievous!"

78, 1. Bon voyage! au plaisir--Pleasant journey! to the pleasure (of seeing you again).

78, 8. "le sang-froid du diable! nom d'un Vellington!"--"the devil's own coolness, by Wellington!"

78, 15. diable--devil.

78, 17. "ces Anglais! je n'en reviens pas! à quatorze ans! hein, ma femme?"--"those English! I can't get over it! At fourteen! eh, my wife?"

80, 10. en famille--at home.

80, 18. charabancs--wagonettes.

80, 32. des chiens anglais--English dogs.

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