26 6 langue du cru: 'local dialect,' 'vernacular' Cru means 'growth,' 'that which grows in a certain district', croître = 'grow' Vin du cru ='local wine', donner une oeuvre de son cru = 'to produce a work of one's own imagination', cf. dame du cru 60 29, jurons du cru 65 4.
26 9 devait: cf. note to 18 2.
26 10 on le chargeait toujours: cf. 11 12.
26 12 l'allusion: like Master Gervais's gun, Tartarin never went off, partir = 'to depart,' 'to go off' (of a gun).
26 13 En un tour de main: 'in a turning of the hand,' 'like a flash'.
26 16 Le fusil de maître Gervais--Toujours on le charge, toujours on le charge--Le fusil de maître Gervais--Toujours on le charge, il ne part jamais.
26 24 lui glisser dans la main: 'slipping in (i.e. out of) his hand'.
26 27 il fait bon: 'it's a pleasant thing'.
26 30 sa même vie: 'the same life as before '--comme si de rien n'était 'as if it was (all) about nothing,' 'as if it all amounted to Nothing'.