traitement,/^, of a state functionary

80* 1. et qui plongeait ses assises dans la forêt, whose lower strata plunged into the fore st.

9. les lacs de Retournemer et de Longemer, in the Département des Vosges, France.

22. Gérardmer, Saint-Dié, Remiremont, ail of them in the Département des Vosges.

81. 29. avec ça, that is, with his medal. — Tonkin, in the northern part of French Indo-China.

2oo NOTES

82. 9. parents. French soldiers are treated with great considération by their officers.

12. qui courent, fleeting. Note that relative clauses may frequently be translated by the présent participle of the verb.

21. gara, formerly a nominative form of garçon of which it is now a f amiliar abbreviation.

83* 1. Sa gorge se serra. A lump rose in his throaU

84* 8. contrée, patrie. What is the différence in meaning?