n'est ce pas, is it not so? would you not

6. qu'elle put trouver. The subj. pût is more usual, as 1, 2.

7. Elle lui donnait : lui seems redundant, repeating à chaque souris. \Ve may say, as each mouse came out, etc.

Page 20. — I. gris de souris. The color, a fine dappled mouse-gray, is neatly suggestive of the origin — a sort of transformed heredity.