je ne sais quel, freely, a curious

4. il avait de l’esprit à en revendre à dix chiens, 4e 4ad intelligence enough and to spare ; lit. “ enough to sell some to ten dogs.”

5. Buffon, a celebrated French naturalist, was born in 1707, and died in 1788.

6. en pleine académie, #ejore the whole academy. The French Academy was founded by Richelieu in 1635.

Page 7.—1. quand leurs coups avaient porté, w%en fheir stones had hit.

2. Allusion to La Fontaine’s fable, Les deux Pigeons : “ Mais un fripon d'enfant (cet âge est sans pitié) prit sa fronde,” etc.