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Fine-Oreille, Quick-Ear, the dog's name

Page 5. — I. toutes pleines, untotiched ; tout, although an adverb, varies when followed by a féminine adjective, singular or plural, beginning with a consonant or h aspirate.

Page 6. — I. d'ici plusieurs années, for several years.

2. il devinait de souvenir . . . , lie sa^v in his mind's eye . . .

3. que is used hère to avoid the répétition of the conjunction beginning the preceding clause. Hère it stands for comme.

Page 7. — I. le commandant de remonte, the ckief officer intrtisted witk the pure hase of thc remounts, i.e. of f resh horses.

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