sans parler, 'to say nothing

1. 37. toute grise et toute ridée, 'quite grey and wrinlcled'; tout, though adv. takes the mark of the fem. when followed by a fem. adj. •\\ hich begins wilh a consonant (not h mute).

1. 3. huel 'gee! gee-up!' a sound uttered by carters to urge on their horses.

1. 9. sorcière, 'sorceress'. Sorcier ixom. Lat. sortiarius, 'a teller of fortunes by lot', which itself comes from soj-tiare, 'to tell fortunes'.

1. 12. je me suis laissé dire, 'I hâve been told'; lit. 'I hâve allowed it to be told to me'. Obs. infin. active with laisser ; cp. p. i, 1. lo.

1. 15. à la bonne heure, ' ail well and good ' ; de bonne heure—' early '.

1. 16. dcst la fille de cette vieille? ' Is she this old woman's daughler?' Fille is bolh girl and daughler, just zis femme is both 'woman and zai/e.