piece fare, great rarity y rare find

57. — ?• ct le plus tôt sera le mieux, the sooner the heifer. — 8. A d'autres, maintenant! What next/ — ^27. plutôt bien que mal, rather good-looking than otherwise.

59. — 7. capote, hood of carriage, here over the back seat only.

60. — 6. Si rapprochés Pim de l'autre, so near each other, — ^23. Les maisons descendaient en joyeuse cascades jusqu'à la route, The houses lay in a piauresque cascade down to the very road. — 29. Richard Cœur de Lion (115 7-1 199), King of England 1189- 1199 — a famous leader of the third crusade.

63. — 12. bêlements, bleating. It would appear the author has used this word loosely, or else would imply there were sheep in the herd. — 27. Poitou, former province of France corresponding to the present Departments of the Deux-Sèvres, Vendee and Vienne.

64. — 21. ma mère, a popular means of friendly address to an elderly woman. — 22. si je la sais! as though I didnH/

65.— -27. Sa dernière espérance ne lui était-elle pas enlev^ée. Wasn't his last hope taken from him? lui a, dative with a verb of deprivation.^28. C'en est fait, It's all up. — 30. je n'arriverais qu'à me faire rire au nez, / should only make a fool of myself. 67. — lb. il partait au triple galop, he would bolt. 70.— 7- qui luttent d'harmonie, vying with each other in singing. 71. — II. hOTdene, little farm — a word peculiar to the dialects of the center and south of France. — 15. oseraie,'patch of young willows for the growth of wood suitable for the making of baskets. See

74.— 17. ns ne fur'nt pas, etc. These lines fall into the kind of poetry known as the alba or morning song, the theme of which is as follows: Two lovers have a tryst which they wish to keep secret. The lark then becomes their watchman to tell them when day is approaching. Often fiome other bird is taken. The Provençal and early Italian poets made frequent use of this theme. Sicilian popular poetry furnished our author with the following example, which appears as a foot-note in the original text of the story:

Ah! rondinella bella Tu fai gran bugiarda:

Hai commenciato a cantar £ non si vede l'alba.

Which might be translated:

Oh I pretty swallow YoTir trick's very hollow:

You've started a ringing Though dawn's not appearing.

Shakespeare has a notable example of this theme in Romeo and Juliety Act III, Scene V. tnr*nt= furent. poinV^ pointe, qu'^que. — 31. à l'heure qu'il est, now, at this very time.

75. — 4. ferait ensuite une démarche près de Beauyais, would then approach Beauvais on the matter.

76. — II. Car je ne yeux pas de M. Delétang pour mari. The de gives a tone of pronounced scorn — for VU have nothing to do with M. Delétang as a possible husband. — 12. £n voilà bien d'une autre, à présenti Literally: Behold indeed some other one of them now I Translate: Now another bee in your bonnet t — 30. II n'a pas un sou yaillant, He hasnH a penny to his name.

77. — 9. Bon! Bon! Yes, yes I — but ironically. — 20. l'homme aux mystères, man of mystery — a taunt insinuating double dealing on the part of the Abbé.