Apprenez par cœur la fable du Chat et du Renardj p

1. Apprenez par cœur pour demain les quatre premiers temps du verbe recevoir.

2. Conjuguez le passé indéfini et le plus-que-parfait de voir : fai vu, f avais vu ; l'imparfait de mourir : je mourais ; le passé défini de 'pouvoir : je pu3,

3. Posez six questions sur la première anecdote du chapitre XV., et répondez à vos questions.

4. Do animais understand us? Do we understand them ? Do we understand them better than they understand us ? Are they intelligent ? Is the dog much less intelligent than man ? — There are dogs môre intelligent than certain men, and surely (assurément) more devoted to their masters, and more faithful.

They ring the bell at Vassar Collège to call the pupils to the table. Puss receîves her food at the same time (héufe"). One day, ishe found herself shut in a rôom, when the bell raùg, She mews. Nobody hears'hèif.

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Yet she is hungry. What will she do? She cannât open the door. But, beîng intelligent, she reasons thus, " When the bell rings, they give me my dinner. Well, (eh bien !) there the bell rope is. Let ns ring." And at once (aussitôt) she jumps, suspends herself to the rope, and rings. — And her dinner came ? — Yes ; she deserved it, did she not ?

1. Apprenez par cœur les quatre premiers temps du verbe rendre. Idem du verbe arriver.

2. Apprenez le futur et le conditionnel de aimer, finir, recevoir, rendre,

3. A dog, having lost his master, scented his track (piste), and went running along the road. Suddenly (tout à coup) he arrived at a cross-way. There were three roads in front of him. What do you think he did, George ? — He scented the three roads, and, when he found his master's track he took the right road. — He would hâve done so, had he not reasoned. He scented the first road and the second. — And the third ? — He did not scent that one, but took it at once. The dog probably had said to himself : "My master must hâve taken one of the three roads. He did not take the first nor the second ; consequently he must hâve taken the third." And the dog took it, sure of finding his master.

4. Si vous rencontriez le chien de l'aveugle conduisant son maître par un petit chemin, vous^mettriez-vous de côté pour le laisser passer? Si vous refusiez de céder le passage, que ferait le chien ? Aurait-il raison de vous obliger de sortir du chemin ? Est-ce pour luimême ou pour l'aveugle qu'il vous disputerait le passage ? N'admirez-vous pas ce chien ?

Conjuguez : Si je rencontrais le chien de V aveugle, je lui céderais le passage, etc. Qtuind je reneantrerai ee chien, je lui céderai le passage, eto.

1. Apprenez par cœur le passe indéfini, le plus-^ueparfait, le passé antérieur, le futur passé et le conditionnel passé de aimer, finir, recevoir, rendre.