hors de cause, not in question

3. je la gardai pour la bonne bouche, / saved her for the last ("tidbit").

Page 31. — I. bonnet de laine, woolen cap (peasant's). 2. courir la prétantaine, to wander.

Page 33. — I. vas for vais.

2. pomme d'api, biffin apple; a red-cheeked apple, properly called beefin, it is said, from resemblance to raw beef.

3. gas for gars = garçon, " fellow." — m'est avis, note colloquial omission of subject, it is my opinion, it seems to me.

Page 33, — I. rire à pleine bouche, to burst into a broad laugh.

2. prendre la poudre d'escampette (" scampering"), colloçujal to run away.

j. tu réussis très bien, y ou are a good hand at.

Page 34. — I. à part moi, to myself.

2. j'avais touché la corde sensible. / had found the weak spot.