comme passé au rouleau, smoothed down as with a roller

Fage 87.— 1. le plus propre, #%e best calculated ; lit, “the most proper.” | Page 88.—1. un propre à rien, a good. jor-nothing fellow.

Page 89.— 1. elle tira. . . son aiguille, s4e sewed ; lit. “she drew

. . her needle.” |

2. Pénélope, the wife of Ulysses, who, in order to get rid of the many suitors who wished 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 compieted; but as she undid during the night the work done in day-time, she always was able to discard her lovers ; hence ##e fapisserie de Pénélope meané “an endless work of embroidery.”

Page 40.— 1. en flagrant délit et lui dire son fait, ## 4e very act and give him a Piece of my mind.

2. la patte dans le sac, î# fhe very act ; lit, “with his paw in the sack.”

3. Cartouche et Mandrin, two famous French highwaymen who livedg in the 18th century.