canon de poche, i.e., a pistol

Pagre 71* — I. droit comme un I, straight as an arrow, 2. II en fut quitte pour la peur, he escaped with his fear.

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Page 74. — i. 'pêlldplàt. ..'paxlotXtCVWê, ^atsidi up, é,ed^'

wise.

Pagre 75« — i. Tout ce qu'il y a de plut épave, ike most abandoned of derelicts.

Page 76. — i. faut-il ... à voua réconcilier? Must one always

be trying to reconcile you ?

Page 77* — i. Enfin je n'y puis rien, however ^ I can*t help it, 2. Youe plaises-YOUS ici? Do you like it here?

Page 78.— -I. le Petit Chaperon rouge, /^â/^ ^^/ ^/ViV -^^«^^ — Maître Corbeau : from the eecond fable by La Fcmtaine. Jean de La Fontaine (i 621-1695) wrote in verse a large number of fables, possessing a great deal of charm and naïveté,

2, La Ballade de sir Robin Gray : a popular Scotch ballad, ^titled Auld Robin Gray^ written in 1772, by Lady Anne Li&dsayé Jennie, the heroine of the ballad, while her loter, Jamie, is away at sea, marries Auld Robin, to save her parents from misery.

3. on enlève les blancs, one brings out the white portions (by rubbing).

Page 79. — I. Victor Hugo (i 802-1 885), the leader of the Romantic movement in Frencli literature. He is one of the greatest of lyric poets. Several of his plays are still given and his novels are known throughout the civilized world.

2. les principes immortels de 8g. The watchwords of the French Revolution were: ** Liberté^ Égalitéy Fraternité,^*

3. les Girondins : V Histoire des Girondins ^ by Alphonse de Lamartine (i 790-1 869), appeared in 1847 and exerted a strong influence in the overthrow of Louis Philippe, in 1848, and the establishment of the Second French Republic. The Girondins were moderate Republicans at the time of the French Revolution and many of them perished during the Reign of Terror.

4. bonnet rouge, the Liberty cap; sometimes called '* the Phrygian cap."