NOTES
[1] Canon is the French word for cannon; it is also used in vulgar parlance to mean a glass of wine drunk at the bar.
[2] Battre les murailles—to beat the walls—has a slang meaning: to be so drunk that you can't see, or can't lie down without holding on.
[3] Literally, red bowels—common slang for hard drinkers.
[4] Cuir is an expression used to denote the error in speaking, which consists—in French—in pronouncing a t for an s, and vice versa at the end of words which are joined in pronunciation to the next word: e.g., il étai-z-à la campagne for il était à la campagne.
[5] In the slang vocabulary, to console one's coffee means to add brandy to it.
[6] A négresse is a bottle of red wine, and, as applied to that article, morte (dead) means empty.
