QUESTIONS ON CHAPTER III

Décrivez John Hardy.

Que faisait-il de ce côté du " ranch " ? Parlez-moi du chien Dash.

Que trouva Mr. Hardy et que s'imagina-t-il? Oii emmena-t-il Juliette?

Décrivez la maison.

Que fit Mrs. Hardy?

Juliette reprit-elle bientôt connaissance? La famille Hardy se composait de combien de personnes? Laquelle s'intéressait le plus à la malade? Décrivez Maggie.

Racontez comment Maggie cherchait à deviner d'oii JulieUc pouvait bien venir.

Quelle solution trouva-t-elle?

TRANSLATION

One fine summer morning, a man on horseback crossed the plains at a gallop. . . A dog ran and jumped about the horse. . .

"Well, what is the matter (qu'est-ce qui te prend), my old Dash? " The dog had stopped suddenly. . . His master whistled to him, but he did net move. Jack Hardy jumped from his

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horse {se jeta à bas de son cheval) and made his way through the corn. Ail of a sudden, he stopped — so much surprised that he had to look twice before understanding. On the ground lay (gisait) the little body of a child... — John Hardy lifted it up and found it cold and inanimate.

" Hullo ! " cried Jack Hardy, with a strong and sonorous voice on arriving near the house. . . Soon an old woman appeared (se montra) . . .

" If we can save her, she will tell us herself what has happened to her. . . It is not a baby, she must be (avoir) nine or ten years old."

...At the one o'clock meal, ail the family assembled and no one spoke of anything but (il ne fut question que de) the newfound child. . .

Maggie, the only daughter, could not keep lier eyes off Juliette...

" I should however like to know what she says when she dreams aloud," said Maggie, who had listened seriously to the short phrases used by Juliette...

" Grand'ma, when Papa found the little girl was it not the moment of the full moon?"

" I think so."

" Then it is quite plain. She must hâve fallen (sera tombée) from the moon and wounded her head in falling to the earth."