grippée, 'dexterously caught

21. le réveille matin, literally 'the alarum' that is the cock. 29. salaire, has hère the sensé of récompense.

31. De Charybde en Scylla, 'from Charybdis into Scylla' Charybdis is a whirlpool on the coast of Sicily, and Scylla another whirlpool on the Italian coast. The oft quoted line. Incidit in Scyllam, qui vult vitare Charybdin is due, not to an ancien! poet, but to a French poet of the Xlith century Gauthier de Chatillon. It signifies that frequently our eagerness to avoid a danger makes us run into another danger of .equal magnitude.

L. LE LABOUREUR ET SES ENFANTS, ^sop's fable 98. Line 2. C'est le fonds qui manque le moins, ''t is work that fails us least' le fonds generally means 'the money invested in a business, or in cultivating land.