et tire l'œil, and attracts the eyes

22. se mit à siffler entre ses dents, began to whistle in his teeth. (Notice the idiom : ^e mettre à, . . . ' to begin to.' . . .) Va-t'en voir s'ils viennent, Jean, Go and see if they're coming, John. (The last line of a verse of a popular French song, which is often hummed as an expression of doubt, and which answers pretty well to the EngHsh expression used in the same way : ' Don't you wish you may get it.')