leur en vouloir. See note to p

21. n'importe quel. Lit. 'it does not matter what,' i.e. 'no matter what.' This phrase stands for the more formai and cumbrous qu'un légume quelconque.

25. dans le goût des châtaignes. Dans le goût de, with things, lit. 'in the taste of,' means 'tasting like; ' with persons it has the English sensé ; e.g. un tableau dans le goût de Raphaël.

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26. en comparaison de notre épouvante à nous autres d'avant '89. Lit. * in comparison with our terror — the terror of us who belonged to the time before '89.' The dative, à nous autres, is équivalent to and emphasizes the possessive notre. Do not render autres, for which see note to p. 4, L 27.

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12. dans les siècles des siècles. This is a translation of the Latin in sœcula sœculorum (' for ever and ever '), which is, of course, very familiar to every one in Catholio France. But the Lord's Prayer has de siècle en siècle. Siècle means : (1) a huudred years, a century ; (2) an âge.

19. dans tout son jour. Render by ' in its full light.' 23. qui passaient a V auberge. Passer a means ■ to go m as you pass.' Render hère by ' who stopped at.' Passer, with an accusative, means to pass by without going in.

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2. en clignant des yeux. See note to p. 22, 1. 25. But in éclataient de rire (see below, p. 44, 1. 13), de dénotes the cause.

21. Us se mettaient a dix contre moi. Render by * they joined (lit put themselves) ten at a time against me.'

26. dans les coupes. Coupe is s place where trees hâve been felled.

25. Nicolas ni Claude n'étaient. The gênerai practice is to put ni before ail the nouns; e.g. ni Nicolas, ni Claude. Ni may, however, be omitted before the first ; e.g. le soleil ni la mort ne se peuvent regarder en face. Cf. " Tongue nor heart cannot conceive nor narae."

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3. on pense d'après cela. Distinguish d'après, which is only metaphorically ' after,' and means ' in the mauner of,' to judge by,'

etc., from après, * after,' in point of tirae or place. Instead ôf the simple présent indicative, say ' one may imagine.'

8. d'avoir jeté" . . . un mauvais sort. Lit. 'to hâve cast an evil spell.' Kender by 'to hâve bewitched.' He does not say whether he thought the field bewitched by imprécation or by the glance of an * evil eye.' In Komance countries the old Italian superstition of the 'evil eye ' still lingers. So late as 1749, Maria Kenata was executed at Wurtzburg for witchcraft In 1751 an old woman was killed for a witch by a Staffordshire mob.

27. prends garde . . . un seul coup de fouet peut vous crever les yeux. The second person singular is naturally used by the father in prends garde, addressed to his son. What follows is of gênerai application, and he slips iuto the second person plural, vous.

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1. Vhuile de faîne. Translate • beech-mast oil.' The vegetable oils of the last century were good but dear. The cheap, nauseous, dangerous minerai oils in use in this century were unknown in

7. que vous êtes grand, que votre bonté repose. Que, qualifying an aJjective, in the sensé of combien, is separated from the adjective by the verb. Que is used with repose in the sensé rather of comme (< how — in what a manner '), than of combien (' how — to what a degree ').

15. les orges . . . grandissaient. Distinguish grandir, 'grow taller,' from croître, used of ail kinds of growth ; e.g. plants with rain, rivers with rain, days in spring.

23. les corvées nous prennent aussi trop de journées. Cf. with aussi the German auch aar zu viel, too many days * alto^ether.' Render by English idiomatio * yes* placed first in the sentence.

28. qu'elle vienne. Lit. * let it corne,' Le. * whether it cornes.'

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