j'appuyai beaucoup sur, / laid mue h stress on

Page 14. — 1. diablotins à ressorts, jumping-jacks.

Page 15. — 1. Faut-il que, par lâcheté, tu n'oses pas te révolter? Must cowardice keep y ou front rebelling?

Page 16. — 1. vous envoyer promener, turn her back on y ou; lit., " send you off."

2. cotillons courts et souliers plats, short skirts and low shoes (peasant women's dress).

3. Perrette (seè La Fontaine's Fables VII, 10), "cotillon simple et souliers plats" was carrying a jar of milk on her head, and, building quite an air-castle out of the money she was to get for the milk, in her delight jumped up and down, dashing the milk jar to the ground.

Page 17. — 1. ce n'est pas la peine, it is useless; "not arorth the trouble."

Page 18. — 1. le bonnet sur la nuque et ses sabots bourrés de paille à la main, her cap hanging from her neck and in her hands her strawstuffed wooden shoes.