avait fait des folies, had been wild

Page 3. — I. la chasse aux pauvres, charitable work among the poor. The author hère uses an expression from the chase.

2. le mois de Marie, the month of May, Called the month of Mary because of the célébrations held by the Roman Catholic Church during that month in honor of the Virgin Mary.

3. grand' messe. In this word and in about half a dozen others tne apostrophe was first written by the grammarians of the sixteenth oentiiry, who supposed that the e of the féminine had been dropped. As a matter of fact the e had never been written in thèse words. Prevtous to the fourteenth century those adjectives which had only one form for both masculine and féminine in Latin had only one form for both genders in French.

'4. venait tenir le petit harmonium, und to corne to play the little organ.