Minos, a my thological character ; hère, judge

3. racines grecques, Greek primitive words, not Greek roots, as we should understand " root ".

Page 81« — I. une décade des Racines de Lancelot. Claude Lancelot (161 5-1695) was a famous teacher in the celebrated school of Port-Royal-des-Champs, near Paris. The Racines contained 216 groups of words of 10 each (décades) of which the définitions were rhymed in order to make them more easy to memorize.

2. maître' répétiteur is another name for maître d'* études. He subjected the pupils to a test {épreuve préparatoire) before the regular recitation (classe) to the prof essor. The ^^ maître répétiteur^* gives each pupil a mark in a book called " cahier de correspondance " which is then given to the prof essor.

Page 87. — i. fit un signe afflimatif, nodded as sent,

2. capitaine Çppk (i 728-1 779) was a celebrated English navigator

who explored the Pacific and Antarctic Océans. He discovered the Sandwich Islands and was killed by the natives.

Page 88« — i. tourner le bouton de la lampe, turn down the lamp (to extinguish it).

Page 89. — i. c'est à peine si; see page 6, note 2.

Page 40« — I. notre lever à nom; à nous is merely emphatic; omit in translating.

Page 41. — I. bien m'en prit, // was welîfor me (that I did so). 2. eau à discrétion, ail the water I wanted.

Page 42. — i. bois de la chaàxt^ front of the desk.

Page 44« — i. café au lait, see page 3, note 3.

2. pion, a nick-name for maître d*études, It is the word in cornmon use in French schools. It désignâtes a person of not much conséquence and our word "pawn" in chess, is derived from it.