Un couvert. — A knife and fork

17. Donnez-m'en encore un peu. — Give me a little more of it.

18. Des jeunes gens. — Young men. Gens and personnes both mean people ; but with jeunes prefixed, they generally mean, the former young men, the latter young ladies. The adjective and noun form in reality a compound word, since the partitive des is used, not de, as might be expected from the Grammar, p. 39, § 4. This is sometimes true of other

adjectives. Des jeunes gens, des jeunes personnes, des petits garçons, and des pauvre gens in note 2.

19. Un potage a la bisque d'écrevisses. — A kind of rich, strained soup, made of crawfish. Those curious in such matters may consult Beleze, Dictionnaire de la Vie Pratique.