San-Cravate; or, The Messengers; Little Streams Part 135
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FOOTNOTES:
[A] _Ficelle_, literally, "packthread": vulgarly, a "trick," or a "trickster."
[B] _Pochetees_--that is, mellowed in the pocket.
[C] _Mistigri_, _misti_, or _misty_: in the game of bouillotte, the knave of clubs.
[D] _Cateau_, an abbreviation of Catherine, used among the common people; vulgarly, a girl of slovenly habits and loose life.
[E] There is, or was, a game called _brelan_; but the term was sometimes applied, in bouillotte, to a hand consisting of two aces and a king, when the other king of the same color was turned.
[F] Substantially a repet.i.tion, in thieves' slang, of the clause beginning: "when the secretary----"
[G] As there were but twelve arrondiss.e.m.e.nts in Paris, this expression was used to denote an illicit connection.
[H] _Atelier_--usually, an artist's studio; also, workroom.
[I] A particular kind of roll.
[J] The word _marron_, in the original, has a significance here that cannot be well rendered in English. It means, variously: an interloper, a runaway, an unlicensed broker.
[K] _Cerf_, stag (in argot, cuckold); _cerf-volant_, kite (in argot, thief).
[L] A female supernumerary in a ballet.
[M] Street walkers.
[N] Much obliged.
[O] Literally, "lioness."
[P] _Miroton_ is a dish in which onions are freely used.
[Q] The same French word--_broche_--means "brooch" and "spit."
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