sans être annoncée, nithidden

3. On fera ... la Nielle et moi = La Nielle et moi, nous ferons

Page 8. — I. Cela fit . . . , //i? became a good soldier and la Nielle a good charger.

2. astiqué comme pas un, "the nattiest in the whole command." Trumpeter Fred, by Captain Charles King, U. S. A.

Pagre 9. — i. attaquer un royaume. The allusion is too vague to allow the reader to find out which kingdom was to be attacked. Further on, page 9, line 21, the nurse who tells the story confesses that she does not even know the name of the place where the battle was fought.

2. Distinguish ei'tt from eut. Eût in a principal clause and sometimes in a dépendent clause ^ aurait. A few examples are found in this book. — On eût dit des taillis . . . , ihey looked like coppices . . . (on account of the lances they bore). A probable réminiscence of Macbeth (Act V, Scène 5).

3. Elle ne faisait que traverser, it lasted only a short time.

4. Mes enfants. Bonne Perrette, the nurse of René Bazin, his brother and sisters, is telling them the story.