faire toucher du doigt, make dearly perceptible

Page 57« — i. ilya des minutes, afew minutes he/ore. 2. le vin était tiré, a proverb meaning that a thing once begun must be gone through with.

Page 58« — i. C'est qu'un participe, etc. This complicated and rather absurd rule is no longer insisted on. This sentence as written in the text would now be considered correct.

Page 60* — I. il n'en finirait pas d'ouvrir cette maudite grille,

be would never get that confounded gâte open.

Page 61. — I. Bébert, a pet name for Albert; "Bertie".