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Every exercise is based on the lines of the text indicated at the head of the exercise and also on the preceding sélections.

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i. Où alliez-vous, ce matin-là? 2. Étiez- vous en avance ou en retard? 3. De quoi aviez-vous peur? 4. Qu’est-ce que M. Hamel avait dit? 5. Qu’est-ce que vous ne saviez pas? 6. Quelle idée vous vint? 7. Quel temps faisait-il, ce jour-là?

1. Where are you going? 2. I am going to (the) 1 school. 3. Am I late? 4. You are very late. 5. Mr. Hamel will scold you. 6. Are you not afraid of him? 7. He will question you. 8. You do not know the participles. 9. I hâve an idea. 10. The weather is clear. 11. Corne with {avec) me. 12. Let us play truant. 13. Let us start running through the fields. 14. But what will Mr. Hamel say?

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1. Où était M. Hamel? 2. Comment parla- t-il? 3. Que dit-il aux enfants? 4. Quel ordre est venu?

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5. D’où cet ordrç est-il venu? 6. Quand le nouveau maître arrivera-t-il? 7. Aujourd’hui, qu’est-ce que M. Hamel donne aux enfants? 8. Qu’est-ce qu’il les prie de faire? 9. Qui ces paroles bouleversèrent-elles?

1. Where is Mr. Hamel? 2. He is at his desk. 3. He is upset. 4. He says a few words in a gentle voice. 5. Boys, be attentive. 6. This morning I received 1 an order from Berlin. 7. That order upset 1 me. 8. To-day I am teaching you for the last time. 9. To-morrow you will hâve a new master. 10. He cornes from Berlin. 11. He will not. teach you (the) French. 12. He will teach you only (the) German. 13. (The) French will no longer be taught in the schools of (the) Alsace and (of the) Lorraine. 14. Today you will hâve your last French lesson (lesson of French).

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1. Qu’est-ce que M. Hamel prit? 2. Que lut-il? 3. De quoi Frantz était-il étonné ? 4. Qu’est-ce qui

lui semblait facile ? 5. Comment explique- t-il cela ?

6. Qu’aurait-on dit que M. Hamel voulût faire, avant de s’en aller?

1. Take your grammars. 2. Listen to me. 3. I beg you to listen to me. 4. I am reading the lesson for tomorrow. 5. I am giving some explanations, 6, I wish x Use the past indefinite.

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[to] 1 give you ail my knowledge. 7. Are my explanations clear (easy)? 8. Do you understand me? 9. We understand ail (that which) you say. 10. Is not the lesson easy? n. To-day it seems easy to us. 12. We are surprised. 13. To-day the school-master is giving his explanations with more patience. 14. Do they enter your heads (into the head to you)? 15. We are more attentive. 16. We listen to him.

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1. Avec quels animaux M. Seguin n’avait-il jamais eu de bonheur? 2. Comment les perdait-il toutes? 3. Que faisaient-elles, un beau matin? 4. Où s’en allaient-elles? 5. Que faisait le loup là-haut? 6. Est-ce que les caresses de leur maître les retenait? 7. La peur du loup les retenait-elle? 8. Quelle sorte de chèvres était-ce? 9. Que voulaient-elles à tout prix?

A. — 1. Mr. Seguin has a goat. 2. He will lose her. 3. She is an independent [sort of a] goat. 4. She likes (the) freedom. 5. She wishes no rope. 6. What does she wish [to] do? 7. Where does she wish [to] go? 8. She will go up there, on the mountain. 9. Will the caresses of her master keep her back? 10. She will not be kept back by anything.

B. — 1. She wishes the open air of the mountain at any cost. 2. But are there no wolves up there? 3. Is

1 Omit the words between brackets.

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she not afraid of them? 4. The fear of the wolves will not keep her back. 5. She will lose the caresses of her master. 6. Some (One) fine morning, she will break her rope, 7. She will go away on the mountain. 8. The wolves will eat her. 9. Mr. Seguin has no luck. 10. He loses ail his goats in the same way.

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1. Qu’est-ce que M. Seguin veut faire? 2. Com- . ment appelle-t-il sa chèvre? 3. Où va-t-il l’enfermer? 4. Pourquoi l’y enferme-t-il? 5. Combien de temps y restera-t-elle? 6. Où M. Seguin l’emporta-t-il? 7. Décrivez cette étable. 8. Comment M. Seguin ferma-t-il la porte? 9. Malheureusement, qu’avait-il oublié? 10. Que fit la petite chèvre dès qu’il eut le dos tourné?

1. Mr. Seguin, where are your goats? 2. Are they in their stable? 3. Is the stable dark? 4. Do not forget that there is a window. 5. What did 1 your goats do? 6. Did 1 you take (carry) them in the dark stable? 7. Did 1 y ou shut them there? 8. Yes, but they did 1 not remain there. 9. We had double locked 2 the doors. 10. We were wishing [to] save them in spite of themselves. 1 1 . Unfortunately we forgot 1 that there was 3 a window. 12. It

1 Use the past indefinite.

2 Use the pluperfect.

3 Use the imperfect indicative.

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always 1 remains open. 13. No sooner hâve we taken (carried) them in their dark stable than they break their ropes (rope). 14. They go away through (by) the window. 15. You hâve no luck with your goats.

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1. Qu’est-ce que le vent fit tout-à-coup? 2. De quelle couleur la montagne devint-elle? 3. Etait-ce le matin qui s’annonçait? 4. Alors, que dit la petite chèvre? 5. Quel sentiment éprouva- t-elle et que fitelle? 6. En bas, que voyait-on? 7. Dans quoi disparaissait le clos de M. Seguin? 8. Quelle partie de la maisonnette voyait-on? 9. Qu’est-ce que la petite chèvre écouta? 10. Qu’est-ce qu’elle éprouva? 11. Quel oiseau la frôla en passant? 12. Que fit-elle? 13. Puis, qu’est-ce qu’on entendit dans la montagne?