[53] 11. le lampa tout d'une haleine: drank it all in one gulp.
[53] 20. du fin matin au brun soir: from early morning till late at night.
[53] 21-22. marteaux-pilons: trip hammers; the immense hammers of the iron works.
[54] 1. luron: a good fellow.
[54] 6. Pauvre fieu: (pauvre fils) poor fellow.
[54] 8-9. Une paille de fer rouge venait de lui crever l'œil droit: a spark of red-hot iron had just put out his right eye.
[54] 9. Le fourgon de l'hôpital: the hospital ambulance.
[54] 17. quinquets: lamps; here slang for eyes; "our two blinkers."
[54] 19. Que l'un s'en aille: que here means if,—if you lose one of them.
[54] 31. viveur et joueur: a high liver and gambler.