e _lycee_)
carries students from the beginning of their studies through a course
which corresponds roughly to that completed in the second year of the
American college.

_69_ 24 _tout frais rases du matin:_ 'all (adverb, = _quite_) freshly
shaved that morning.'

_69_ 25 _vous ... casquettes:_ transl. 'all of you gentlemen, the
caphunters.'

_69_ 27 _la votre:_ i.e. _votre romance_, cf. pages 6-7.

_69_ 30 _Bedouins:_ nomadic Arabs in northern Africa and Arabia.

_69_ 32 _tout cela:_ cf. note to _55_ 28.

_69_ 33 _auquel ... rien:_ cf. _je ne comprends rien a tout cela_ 'I don't
understand any of that.'

_70_ 1 _On me plaint:_ 'they begrudge me.'

_70_ 5 _brancards:_ a stage-coach has no _shafts. Brancards_ is used also
for the two pieces of wood which connect the fore and after carriages of a
vehicle, transl. 'body.' Daudet may mean simply 'pole.'

_70_ 6 _tenez!_ lit. 'hold!' An exclamation whose force varies greatly;
transl. here 'just see that!'

_70_ 8 _gouvernement:_ 'seat of government', cf. note to _42_ 1.

_70_ 9 _plus rien:_ cf. note to _13_ 1.

_70_ 10 _lentisques:_ 'mastic trees,' small trees growing in the
Mediterranean countries, producing a resin which is used in the
manufacture of paints.

_70_ 14 _champoreau:_ a warm drink, coffee with a copious admixture of
brandy, popular among the Europeans in Africa.

_70_ 21 _une cour de caravanserail:_ cf. note to _1_ 5. A caravansary is a
building for the lodging of caravans. See "Le Caravanserail" in "Contes du
lundi."

_70_ 29 _kousskouss:_ (_couscous_): meat cooked with flour, the national
dish of the Arabs according to Daudet, "Paysages gastronomiques" in
"Contes du lundi."

_71_ 2 _une place de jolie sous-prefecture:_ 'the square of a pretty
little city,' 'the square of a pretty city about the size of a
subprefecture'; cf. note to _17_ 14. For the construction cf. note to _1_
5.

_71_ 4 _de petits soldats de plomb:_ 'little lead soldiers', cf. note to
_1_ 5. The men drilling looked like lead soldiers when seen through the
_vitres depolies par la buee_, on account of their stiffness and the
dimness of their outline in the early morning light.

_71_ 7 _ne sentait pas encore le lion:_ 'did not savor of lions yet', cf.
_cela sent le camphre_ 'that smells of camphor.'

_71_ 8 _Plus au sud:_ not negative; cf. note to _13_ 1.

_71_ 13 _grosse comme le poing:_ 'as big as your fist.'

_71_ 14 _haute de cinq doigts:_ cf. notes to _26_ 5 and