[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.