tel que me voilà, ' as y ou sec me

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I. pare à virer, • clear the decks for a tack.* Jeanneton is to gel out of the way, and let Pigault * tack ' and comc in at the door ; for the * fair breeze ' is enough to make him shiver.

4. Eh hen 1 ben is a colloquialism for bien^ the word being commonly made by peasants into a monosyllable by the dropping of thc y Sound given by the first vowel.

10. M'est avis que. For the omission of the pronoun see note on p. 12, 1. 2.