Acte mortuaire — Certificate of death

72. Ses deux fils. — It seems as if this should be ses deux filles^ though./?/5 is found in the French éditions, for nine lines farther on we find that the son had run away.

74. L'aura suivi— ^iwai hâve foUowed him. Three and five lines farther we find auront livré, must hâve waged, and sera ressorti, must hâve gone out again. Notice this very idiomatic use of the future perfect, whicli will perhaps appear more clearly in the foUowing : Où est mon couteau f—Je r aurai perdu— Where is my knife ? — I must hâve lost it.

75. Sa grande tignasse en boudin — His great shock of hair doue up in a eue. For tignasse see note to p. 15. Boudin means literally a kind of sausage, hence en boudin is applied to the eue on account of the way in which it is done up.

76. Lia recommande de ne pas oublier — Tell him to be sure not to forget.