chose pareiUe, Bender by * anything like it

63. je cours. The present tense is empliaticallj used for the future. Bender by the future. Cf. *I am fourteen (years old) to-morrow;' of. also 20, 1. 13.

65. dans la campagne. Translate ' into the fields.' * To go (out of town) into the country ' is rendered by à; aller à la campagne; * to be in the country,' as opposed to town, être à la campagne,

77. h quoi pourrait servir. Lit. * for what could a cage serve ?* Cf cette cage ne sert à rien maintenant, * this cage is of no use now.*

80. mademoiselle peut être. This use of a title of address as subject is common in French. Such titles, in speaking to a person, mu8t be in the vocative in English.

82. je voudrais bien. Vouloir means to * intend,' ' want,' * wish,* and even to * command : ' e.g. * I desire that yon, etc.' Je voudrais would mean * I E>hould want ; ' with bien added it is a different thing, * I should like,' mildly polite.

86. ça $e comprend. *That understands itself ' is equivalent to *that is easily understood.'

93. tarder à. This is lit *to be slow at' 'Tou have been a long time com ins:' is "otM avez tardea venir,

— . il faudra bien^ etc. *lt will l»e thoroughly necessary that' is not Ënglisli. To take one idioiuatio way of rendering it out of several, one may bay ' they will have to come buck Wiietlitr they like it or not'

99. que vovHez-vous, etc. See note to 103, L 82. In English one says not *■ want that I,' but * want me to.'

105. il leur en coûtait . . . awint que vous ayez. The past coûtait should be followed, not by the perfect, but by the

pluperft'et snbjunotive. The down in his excitement forgets, if he ever knew, the oorrespondeuoe of tenses; and besides, e.g^y * they might have oome back before you have di&coYered * is more graphic than 'before yon had/ For coûfaU in the indicative instead of in the conditional, see note to 95, L 24.

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2. le 27 octobre. Bates are expressed in French by the definite article with tiie noun in the accusative of time. There is no preposition as there is in English, and the cardinal numbers are used, not the ordinal ; tlius * the 4th of March ' is 20 4 (quatre) mare. Cf. Vhiver^ * in winter ; ' lea dimancheSj * on Sundays.'

4. le mit en apprentiesaçe. The English idiom is not *in apprenticebhip' bat * apprentice.' Below, translate faire eon apprentissage by ' serve Uia appreuticeship.'

6. la passion de la mer. The defiuite article is used to express 'that passion which is inspired by the sea.' Bender by the indefinite article, * a passion for, etc.'

7. il sut obtenir. Savoir^ with the infinitive, lit. to ' know how to,' is often used in the sense of *be able to' or * succeed in.' Pouvoir expresses simple possibility, savoir expresses more, ability attained by trying.

11. de second. Le second is he who commands en second^ 'as second,' i.e. the mate. Small coasting vessels have only one mate, technically called 'only mate.*

13. 1755. General Braddnck was sent out to America in 1755 to act agfainst the French on the Ohio, in conjunction with Washington, who had been beaten by a force of B^rench and ludiiind in the preci-ding year. In 1756 tlie Seven Years' War broke out in Europe. Austria, France and Kussia formed an alliance airainst Prussia, whose only ally was England.

16. pilote. The pilote is the ofiScer called 'master' in the navy. The master was responsible for the navigation of the ship, and was generally an old merchant sailor.

21. se dirigea sur. Se diriger sur is lit. 'to direct one's self on,' «.e. * to steer for.'

24. cap. Cap, from Lat. eaput^ 'head,' means, in modem French: (1) * ship's head;' (2) «headland' or *oapo.' 'Armed from head to foot ' is, in old phrase, armé de pied en cap.

27. la Nouvelle-Zélande, Tasman, from whom Tasmania is named, saw New Zealand in 1642, but did not land.

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32. fort grand». The adjective here is really a shortened olanse, e,g. * who were yery tall.' Of. 71, 1. 41, le roi furieux, • the king who was furious.'

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40. He faiiaient grand cas des. Faire cas de^ lit. ' to make case of,' in the strengtliened form faire grand cas de^ is * to make much of or *show great appreciation of.* Faire compte de or tenir ùompte de has the same meaning.

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