mon petit père, impertinent familiarity, dear old man I

8. Ron . , .patapon, the meaningless refrain of a French nursery song {Meeny, miny^ mo! would be an equivalent with us) which Boniface uses as an impertinent answer to his deaf master. The verses below are in the same strain and from the same source. Use one of our nursery rhymes. '

Page 7* — I. Ah I c'est possible. Damoiseau does not hear, and assuming Boniface to have given a satisfactory explanation for his tardiness, answers, Ohy very possibly, or Thafs all right,