marches, steps

Des petits grcu'çons ; note des and not de, petits garçons being looked upon as a compound substantive. See similar example, note p. 6, L 25.

17. la maltraitait ; lit. ill-treated her, with words, not blows ; abtised her.

19. se mourant, dying ; being on the verge of, graduaXly dying. Se mourir can hardly be looked upon as a reflexive verb, and cannot be so conjugated thronghout its tenses.

de = toith, from, See note p. 16, 1. 28.

25. starost; lit. the elder man ; the Mayor, '^Starost, de l'ad-

jectif sta,orif vieux ou ancien, est en Russie ce que sont les maires en France, les schultz ou baillis en Allemagne." — (Note of the author.)