redoubler d'intelligence, ' exert ail our wits

, , 6. de manière à ce que, ' in snch a way that. * Note

subjunct. of purpose as after afin que, etc. ,, 9. je vas manœuvrer du: vas popular for vais, ' work,

manœuvre with the . .' ,, 13. colosse de Rhodes : one of tlie ScA'en "NTouders of the

World, an enoi-mous statue representing Apollo, about

100 feet high, built about 280 B.c., and overthrown

fifty-six years later by an eartliquake. ,, 19. état de chanoine: the life of a canon is popularly

supposed to be an easy one.

,, 20. rompez les rangs, 'break the ranks,' i.e. 'disperse,'

'beotf.' ,, 29. on ne voyait . ., 'one did not either see but one . ..'

i.e. ' ouly one arm of each, also, was visible.'

64. 8. s'allonger de trois pieds : note the de of ' measuve ' ;

so large, haut, etc., de deux mètres, ' two mètres broad,

high.' ,, 19. place au théâtre! a misuse of the phrase 2^^(i<^^ à =

'make room for,' ' liere cornes. .'; say, ' now for the

performance 1 ' ,, 25. dès leur plus tendre enfance, ' froni their earliest

cliildhood.'