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Hymne du matin . Attend my lays, ye ever honour'd nine, Assist my labours, and my strains refine; In smoothest numbers pour the notes along, For bright Aurora now demands my song.
43 5 chasseurs d'Afrique: French light cavalry serving in Algeria; transl. 'Africa cavalry. In 1871 about 11,000 natives of Alsace-Lorraine were granted land in Algeria. Daudet visited Algeria in 1861, before the Alsatians immigrated in large numbers. 43 8 spahis: 'spahis, native cavalry in the French service, commanded by French officers.
Despite this belief and despite the game laws, in southern France generally, especially in the Camargue, large numbers of swallows are killed and eaten. 5 7 en pleine campagne: 'into the open country', cf. 2 2, 41 13. 5 11 boeuf en daube 'stewed beef', properly, stewed with vegetables and then baked slowly Dauber = braiser saucissot: italicized because a dialectal form, = saucisson 'sausage'.
24 23 pluies de sauterelles: particularly in Africa and Asia migratory locusts collect in countless numbers, forming a cloud so dense as to obscure the sun, and consume every green thing, cf.81 25 and note to 86 20 See the pages on "Les Sauterelles" in "Lettres de mon moulin," where Daudet describes an invasion of these terrible insects.
Le long du jour il s'accoude au comptoir de la salle commune. Les parois se tapissent de pancartes: matous de l'Old Tom Gin, triangles rouges du pale-ale, bruns losanges du stout. Les chromolithographies sentimentales des Christmas Numbers alternent avec les épilepsies des Police News, de même que, sur le dressoir, les sirops et les élixirs
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