eue, found

24. il y a quinze jours, wo 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 Sorciéres espagnoles (1830).

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

Page 96.— 3. Faut = il faut.

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

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