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T'as ... ; cf. page 49, note

Page 55. — I. pour celui . . . , ï.Q.pour le meunier.

2. un gâteau de pain bénit, a tiny loaf of consecrated bread. The past participle of bénir has two forms: béni, -e, "blessed," and bénit, -e, "consecrated," "holy." Examples: dit pain bénit, de l'eau bénite.

Page 56. — i. A Catholic considers the day of his first communion as the greatest in his lifetime.

Page 57. — i. à la boire, by inhaling it . . .

Page 58. — i. rentier is a person who lives on his Translate hère: the only well-off -woman.

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