papier vert à ramages, green flowered wall paper

9. rivière noire, reference to an episode of the famous novel of Bernardin de St. Pierre, Paul et Virginie (1788). The scene is laid in the island c£ Mauritius or Isle de France, east of Madagascar.

29. portant balais ... The omission of the partitive des is permissible in enumerations of this kind.

S.—1. ils se coulaient, /#ey s/ipped.