12 ([return])
[Literally “made cuirs”; i. e., pronounced a t or an s at the end of words where the opposite letter should occur, or used either one of them where neither exists.]
13 ([return])
[Lawyer Corbeau, perched on a docket, held in his beak a writ of execution; Lawyer Renard, attracted by the smell, addressed him nearly as follows, etc.]
14 ([return])
[This is the factory of Goblet Junior: Come choose your jugs and crocks, Flower-pots, pipes, bricks. The Heart sells Diamonds to every comer.]
15 ([return])
[On the boughs hang three bodies of unequal merits: Dismas and Gesmas, between is the divine power. Dismas seeks the heights, Gesmas, unhappy man, the lowest regions; the highest power will preserve us and our effects. If you repeat this verse, you will not lose your things by theft.]
16 ([return])
[Instead of porte cochère and porte bàtarde.]
17 ([return])
[Jesus-my-God-bandy-leg—down with the moon!]
18 ([return])
[Chicken: slang allusion to the noise made in calling poultry.]
19 ([return])
[Louis XVIII. is represented in comic pictures of that day as having a pear-shaped head.]
20 ([return])
[Tuck into your trousers the shirt-tail that is hanging out. Let it not be said that patriots have hoisted the white flag.]
21 ([return])
[In order to re-establish the shaken throne firmly on its base, soil (Des solles), greenhouse and house (Decazes) must be changed.]