eping up with it.'

_94_ 15 _rencoigna:_ an old spelling of _rencogna._ The word is
etymologically connected with _coin_; cf. English (Shakespearean) 'coign.'

_94_ 19 _Pas le sou:_ 'penniless'; _je n'ai pas le sou_ = 'I haven't a
cent.'

_94_ 21 _Tarascon!_ for the electrifying sonorousness of this call cf.
note to _1_ 1.

_94_ 27 _il croyait a:_ 'he thought it was'; cf. note to _77_ 25.

_94_ 29 _sympathique:_ 'friendly'; contains also the ideas of
'sympathetic,' 'congenial,' 'responsive.'

_95_ 4 _s'etaient monte la tete:_ _se monter la tete_ = 'to become greatly
excited'; transl. 'had gone wild.'

_95_ 6 _dix ... une marmelade de lions:_ 'ten lions, twenty lions, a mass
of lions.' _Mettre en marmelade_ = 'to smash to a jelly'; cf. _12_ 3.

_95_ 8 _de deux heures:_ cf. note to 42 25.

_95_ 12 _descendre a cloche-pied:_ 'hobble down.' _Clocher_ and _marcher a
cloche-pied_ = 'to hop.'

_EXERCISES

I

TRANSLATION_

1. He has not found any. 2. What will he tell me? 3. They will go away
every Sunday. 4. I told him what they were doing. 5. Some Tarasconians
used to assemble and eat big pieces of beef. 6. This man makes (you) laugh
and sing if you (_use_ 'on') are naturally superstitious. 7. Take some if
you find any. 8. The cap will be sold (_use_ 'on') to the one who does it
most often. 9. Will you tell me what each one had at the end of his gun?
10. Throw it with all your might.

_QUESTIONS_

1. Qu'est-ce que les chasseurs font quand le gibier est rare? 2. Ou
s'allongent-ils? 3. Que mangent-ils? 4. Que boivent-ils? 5. Apres le
dejeuner que font-ils? 6. Qui est proclame roi de la chasse? 7. Comment
est-ce que le triomphateur rentre a Tarascon? 8. Qu'est-ce que les
chapeliers vendent? 9. Qui leur en achete? 10. Qu'est-ce qu'il y a dans
les greniers?

_II

TRANSLATION_

1. Great men are bored the rest of the time. 2. It's enough to make you
die of excitement. 3. The fact is that a heroic soul like mine will
scarcely enlarge its horizon at Tarascon. 4. He will seek to tear himself
from his dream. 5. In the long run all he does to forget reality will
serve only to keep him in a state of anger. 6. Do not give me bad advice.
7. He did nothing to alleviate his thirst for adventures. 8. The wind
blows during the heavy summer afternoons. 9. How many times he forgets
himself! 10. Let him come!

_QUESTIONS_

1. Qui s'ennuie? 2. Quelles sont la nature et l'ame de Tartarin? 3. Que
revait-il? 4. Q