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EXERCISE III

(Le chat botté, pp. 398-401.)

A. 1. We did not call the notary. 2. The miller received the mill. 3. Shall we be able to console ourselves for having such a poor share? 4. When he has his bag, and when he has put bran into it, he will go into the brushwood. 5. I have got a pair of boots made for myself. 6. He hung himself up by the feet, and pretended to be dead. 7. He waited for some young rabbit to eat the bran. 8. We were shown up to his apartments. 9. Did you bow to the king? 10. We thank you. 11. Let us go and hide ourselves in the wheat. 12. One day, when we learned that you were to go to the river's banks, we went for a walk. 13. We said, "Follow our advice, and leave it to us." 14. They advised him to bathe in the river. 15. As they were bathing, we happened to pass. 16. She put her head out of the carriage door, and screamed. 17. Order your guards that some one go to his help. 18. The marquis was pulled out of the water. 19. Although the cat cried, "Stop thief," the thieves carried ofif his master's clothes. 20. Go and get those fine clothes. 21. We had just given him a carriage. 22. They wished us to get into the carriage. 23. We shall not fail to ask them whose meadow it is, 24. That meadow yields well every year. 25. Do you wish to know whose castle this is? 26. We shall say the same thing to those we meet. 27. That is the castle whose master is an ogre. 28. He is the richest man I have ever seen. 29. Tell us what that cat can do. 30. Can the cat change itself into a lion? 31. The ogre became a lion. 32. Boots are no good for walking on tiles.

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