Courtil. — A little garden adjoining a peasant's house

15. Quin'allit . . . mangit. — Who went but once to the wood and whom the wolf ate. Allit and mangit are provincial forms for alla and mangea. In the same sentence le chien a Brisquet is a popular form for le chien de Brisquet.

1. Calabre. — Calabria, the most southern province of what was formerly the kingdom of Naples.

2. Car il m'en arrive des unes et des autres. — For I meet with both ; literally, for both happen to me.

3. C'est du noir, prenez-y garde. — It is gloomy, take care. Y hère means about it; the verb being prendre garde a, this construction is used.

4. Méchantes gens. — Wicked people. For the anomalous use of the féminine adjective with gens, see Grammar, p. 207, § 6.

5. Et en veulent surtout aux Français. — And are particularly set against the French. En vouloir à is a violent ellipsis for vouloir du mal a quelqu'un de quelque chose, to wish harm to sorae one for, or on account of, something (an injury, &c.) ; de quelque chose being represented by en, while du mal is now entirely omitted, though in XXIII., 23, we see that this was not always the case in Molière's time. En vouloir a may be translated, according to the context, to be vexed or angry with, to find fault with, to hâve a grudge or spite against, to hâve evil designs upon, &c.