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359. Huit jours. — A week. Quinze jours. — A fortnight. It would require a long chapter on national peculiarities to explain

how this niiscoraputation of tinie could hâve been introduced, or, being introduced, how it should retain its curïency. We must content ourselves with saying that the French are not so regardful as we of a day more or less ; and, as they reckon from one day to the eightk suceeeding, for which expression they nse " d'aujourd'hui en huit," the expression we hâve quoted is sufficiently accurate. It is, however, very frequently translated erroneously in our journals, and hence the necessity of calling attention to it.

• 360 and 361. " Tu " and " vous." —The mother says " ta ; " the boy, " tous." The mother is exceedingly angry, — beside herself with rage, — and her use of " tu " is not an expression of maternai affection, but of unrestrained anger. The boy, on the contrary, says "tous," which indicates his estrangement from his mother, and the absence of ail tender, filial Iotc.

362. Faut me donner. — This is hère used for " Il faut me donner." It is to be constantly borne in mind that the language of this book is exceedingly familiar, and for that reason particularly Taluable as an elementary work in learning to speak the language. In writing, koweTer, and more dignified conversation, a more eleTated style would be préférable. In such a case, it would be inappropriate to omit "il."