hors de cause, not in question

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

Page 31* — 1. bonnet de laine, woolen cap (peasant's). 2. courir la prétantaine, to wander.

Page 3 a. — 1. 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, " f ellow." — m'est avis, note colloquial omission of subject, it is my opinion, it seems to me.

Page 33. — 1. rire à pleine bouche, to burst into a broad laugh.

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