avait fort grand air, looked very magnificent

17. — 3. vous avez beau être, even though you are. avoir beau usually means to be in tain, useless.

16. une fois que c'est bien dans son train, wlien once she is well under way ; ça is familial* for elle.

18. plein les mains : see note, p. 3, 1. 22. 20. tôt, gently ! (spoken lo tbe horse.)

28. le chemin des écoliers is a roundabout road, since schoolboys are not likeiy to be in a hurry on their way to or from school. ' ' Creeping like a snail, unwillingly to school."

18. — 19. rallye-papers, paper-chase, generally called by English schoolboys "hare and hounds."