tout d’une traite, wi/hout interruption

3. le coucou, #4e cuckoo cloëk. These clocks, generally with cases of carved wood, are made in Switzerland and the Black Forest.

Page 153.—1. Je n’ai rien du tout! 7%ere is nothing whatever the matter with me.

2. Il n’y a pas là de quoi fouetter le plus petit chat, # #5 ##oflthe slightest consequence. |

Page 154.— 1. pour prendre de ses nouvelles, # as4 kow she felt.

Page 155.— 1. en avaient dit plus long que ses paroles, £ad said more than his words. N

2. Car d’autres qualités, je ne m’en vois guère! As }or ofher qualêlies, Î hardly see that Z have any.

Page 156.— 1. grand’peur, cf. page 44, note 1.

Page 158.—-1. Calife de Bagdad et Aline, reine de Golconde: the names of two operas, the first by Boïeldieu, a French composer (1775-1834), the second by Donizetti, an Italian composer (1798- 1848).

2, Si bien mis à contribution, wor£ed so hard.