Ont-ils pas = N' ont-ils pas

Page 24. — i. il n'y a qu'elles pour . . ., they are the only birds capable to . . .

2. N'y a pas . . . , colloquial for il n'y a pas . . . Translate: JVo fear of that. — pour ce que c'est beau! tliat (i.e. the nest) is

3. où la . . . aurait pu tenir, in which there woidd hâve been room enotigh for ail the mail received within one year by ail the inhabitants of the village.

Page 25. — i. La Saint-Robert = /« ///^ de Saint Robert, th.& patron saint of the priest. The French do not, as a rule, celebrate birthdays, but congratulate their relatives and intimate friends on the occasion of their patron saints' days.