n'est que temps, // is high time (she should rebel

Pagre 4* — I. Vlan 1 9a y est. Boniface slaps his thigh in disgust, uttering a word expressive of the sound (like our Bing! or Bifff)i and adds : there we are again ! lit., " it (i.e. what I expected) is there, is done, has occurred."

Page 5* — I. colère rentrée. In certain cases of inflammation, etc., the object of medication is to relieve the system by drawing the disease to the surface. If the disease "strikes in", serious complications may arise. Here Mrs. Damoiseau's wrath " struck in " and killed her.

2. plus personne, off she went, for {il n*y eut) plus personne, " there was nobody (i. e. no Mrs. Damoiseau) left."

3. electro . . . galvanique, of course a name invented by the quack. Galvanique^galvanisme \ see page 23, line 21.

4. trompe d'Eustache, the " Eustachian tube " that runs from the ear to the back of the mouth. The word trompe also means a rustic horn such as shepherds, etc., use, and as the name Eustache is not unusual among the French peasantry, Boniface's reference to the little cow-herd in the next scene is not so very far-fetched. To find an equivalent play on the English word (page 7, line 12) will tax the student's ingenuity.

Page 6. — I . montrant, pointing to,

2. que. This que introducing the real subject in a clause begin-