courageuse. See note to p

29. à piocher. Translate by English présent participle. The French corresponds to the obsolète English préposition aud verbal noun, * a-pecking.'

30. toujours le soir. Le soir is accusative of time. Thus lundi, on Monday ; les lundis, on Mondays; il a fait seul et la nuit une route si longue ! ' — by night.'

31. la couvée. Either the eggs on which a bird sits, or, collectively, the résultant young birds. So, above, les poussins is familiarly usud for * children.' Translate * the brood.'

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6. ils devaient. The objective * money' is omitted. Cf. les plus hardis arrêtaient, p. 8, 1. 32, and note.

7. tout enfant. The noun being in apposition, and having an adjectival force, has no article. Render 'when quite a child.' Tout enfant quil est would mean * child as he is,' * although he is a child.'