eue, found

24. il y a quinze jours, two weeks ago. In reckoning a series of days the French count part of a day as a whole one, instead of reckoning, as English does, by periods of twenty-four hours; hence they call a fortnight quinze jours and a week huit jours.

25. Jean Coll is a Gallicized form of the name of a Catalan bandit, Juan Coll, mentioned by Mérimée in Les Sorcières espagnoles (1830).

27. Voilà donc qu’en travaillant, A nd so while we were working. The guide’s speech is that of a peasant; hence he says (here and in line 31) voilà que, (line 28) Jean Coll ... il donne, (line 30) que je dis for dis-je, (page 96, line 2) notre maître, etc.

Page 96. — 3. Faut = il faut.

6. Et le voilà . . . qu’il se demène et qu’il faisait . . . , And there he was . . . a-stirring about and a-doing . . .

10. révérence parler, begging your pardon. With rustic modesty, the peasant apologizes for using the word nue.