vint h passer. See Yocabulary

18. dis donc. Dis is here the second person of the imperative. The correspondingly familiar English is in the first person present indicative, * I say.'

19. n'y a i-tl pa» . . . que tu es perché. Lit Ms there not long enough that you are perched ? ' Say * Have you not been perched long enough ? *

26. à toute» jambe». Lit. * with all hia legs/ i.e. * as fast as his legs could carry liim.' Tlie meaning of tout in this iiliom is that of making fuU use of, e.g., à toute bride, *at full speed,' the metaphor being taken from giving a horse all the bridle, or as we say * his head.'

31. lui M met. The disjunctiye lui is used for emphasis, pointing the contrast with leur. When the disjunctive pronoun is used as an emphatic subject, it must be repeated in the frst person by the conjunctive : e.g. moi, je me met» ; it mat be repeated in the third person : e.g. Zui , il m met (very emphatic).

34. fwlh^ etc. Lit. 'Behold coming up running, not the hange<l man.' Render *they saw coming up at a run, not tiie gibbeted thief.' Nouj *• no,' is used to answer a question ; notit or non pa», is used before a word which is not a verb.

1. la fête de iaint Nicola». Translate by 'St. Nicholas' Day.'