comme passé au rouleau, smoothed down as with a roller

Page 87. — i. le plus propre, the best calculated; lit., '*the most proper."

Page 88. — i. un propre à rien, a goodfor-nothing fellow.

Page 89. — i. elle tira . . . son aiguille, she sewed ; lit., "she drew

. . her needle."

2. Pénélope, the wif e of Ulysses, who, in order to get rid of the many suitors who vdshed to marry her during the twenty years' absence of her husband, declared that she would consent to marry again when a work of embroidery she had commenced should be completed ; but as she undid during the night the work done in day-time, she always was able to discard her lovers ; hence une tapisserie de Pénélope means ** an endless work of embroidery."

Page 40. — I. en flagrant délit et lui dire son fait, in the very act and give him a pièce ofmy mind.

2. la patte dans le sac, in the very act ; lit., " with his paw in the sack."

3. Cartouche et Mandrin, two famous French highwaymen who lived in the i8th century.