bottes à lecuyeie. 7 les jambes

trempées, mj instead of the

posst m the possession : d sufficu

y 8. à vous tenir aux pieds te tiUk to J 9. allez.

Page 8. — 1. quoique ce chemin-là soit un ruban de queue

un peu long, although that road is a liitle long, 2. il se mit à son aise tout à coup, he suddenly grew more familiar. 3. vous êtes un bon enfant, y ou are a good fellow. The word enfant is often used in French, like garçon, in the meaning of fellow or man. One can be un bon garçon^ and be forty or fifty years old. 4. les Rouges. The new guards of Louis XVI II. 5. avaient données. Note agreement of past participle with préventions, object of combien de. 6. ajouta-t-il. Observe the so-called euphonie /, used indeed for the sound in modem French, but which is nothing but the / of the third person singular in Latin. 7. à moi, emphatic use of pronoun : it is not my business. 8. cheval de louage, a hired horse. Cheval de maître, a horse owned by a private individual. 9. comme il ne venait pas un mot, as 1 did not say a word, or with the impersonal il literally translated: as there ca?ne not a word. 10. par exemple, indeed. Exclamations are to be translated according to the meaning of the sentence.

Page 9 — 1. et il donna ce coup d'épaule que, and he shrugged his shoulders in a way which. 2. ce coup d'épaule, that shrug. 3. devient un tic, becomes a nervous habit.