Son mois, his allowance for the month

4. Tour des décavés, the deal in which someone may make a sweep. The cave is the sum each player has before him ; to be décavé is to bave lost it ail ; then the player has the right to se recaver.

Page 13. — I. Carré J a brelan carré is superior to ail others, and occurs when the three cards in the player's hand are of the same dénomination as the trump card on the table.

2. Dont un, supply est; the verb is often understood after dont, when a part is to be separated from a previously mentioned whole.

3. Que d'argent . . . , ichata lot of money, dear me ! Hère, take it!

Page 14. — r. Bête is an adjective.

2. Pristi is hère an exclamation of pain. It is another form of sapristi, or cristi, {sanguis Christi).

Page 15. — I. Il paraît . . .; Colladan is impressed by the statements of the handbills distributed by the travelling dentist. 2. Que introduces a command given in the third person.

Page 16. — I. Tenez is an exclamation, not a command. The varying exclamatory force of tiens, tenez, va, allons, allez, voyons, etc., must be learned by observation. At the bottom of the page tenez arrests the attention of Félix, while allons encourages or urges him.

Page 17. — I. Est-ce; the French often use the interrogative verb in exclamations where the negative-interrogative form is found in English.

2. Trouble, not in the English sensé, but, rather, agitation.

3. Donc adds force to an imperative, and frequently is a sign of impatience. Do count, or, lahy don't you count!

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ra??e 18.— I. Qui diable . . . , -u'ho thc dmcc fut ail tliosc in M,-; ,■ /

2. Je l'ai payée; he nicaiis that he paid forty lîvt; llunisaiid francs for his notary's practicc.

PapTP 19. — I. Il y va is eciui valent to // jV/i,'-//, my liappniess is at sldhc.

PllffO 20. — I. Je ne puis, / ctiii siarci-ly ; note the weaker nieaning of the forin /«/\f, wliich is found only in this person.