à. CMeiWix, in gathering. Note the infinitive idiom

3. fille, familiarly and affectionately : your Utile girl. se trouvait . . . mal, idiom : loas a little unwell.

4. cherra, okl future of choir ; chevillette, bobinette are diminutives: the boit is held up by a peg.

5. en moins de rien, phrase: in less than no time. — qu'il n'avait mangé (\vithout/><7i) — that he had not eaten — since he had eaten anything.

6. vint heurter, as 1, 6. s'alla coucher, went to bed, as 1, 10. — In the following paragraphs note the exact répétition of foregoing passages, with an effect especially charming to children.

Page 3. — I. était faite, was made (up) — lookcd — in fur night-clothes.

2. que . . . de, whal big arms. Note the idiom; also einphatic position of mifu.x ; hctt:, Ûic he/ter. 1. II. c'est — it is — English : they are.

3- la, liere the nattiral gender, as in English. The grammatical gender would recjuire le.

The story hère ends with the tcrror of an awful rctril)ution : what little girl would ever again loiter by the way ! The niiklcr " poetic justice " of other forms of this story, as in Grimm's " Rotkaeppchen " — including the opportune arrivai of the hunters, the cutting open of the wolf, the rescue alive of Red Riding Hood and her grandmother, and the merited fate of the wolf, etc. — is well known to our readers, and is, doubtless, more acceptable to most little girls.

(Blue Be.\rd.)

Page 4. — I. en broderie — in emuroidery — that is, with embroidered trimminys. vaisselle d'or, gold plate, tout, ail over.

2. Qvà ne s'enfuît (= s'en fuir, like s'en aller). Note subjunctive after négative; also the idiom, avait la barbe bleue, had a blue bcard.

3. lui en demander une, asked her for, etc. Note the idioms; also omission of article with darne, in apposition.

4. n'en voulaient point, idiom : would hâve nothing of him — or simply, would not hâve him. se le renvoyaient, etc., sent him back each to the other: se indirect, emphatically repeated by l'une à l'autre. The imperfect implies repeatedly.

5. Ce qui . . . c'est, ivhat disgusted them still more, was that, etc. This use of c'est, présent, is idiomatic.