au lieu d'apporter leurs redevances en na

ture, instead of bringing their rents in the produce <^ their farms.

27. tirer parti de tout ce qu'on lui apportait, to take advantage of aU that ihey browght her.

é6. — 4. à ce que mon père m*a dit, as myfcuher Acw told m^.

15. régime dotal, the law which gives to husband and wife the separate ownership of their own property, although the management of ail the property, or of the dowry of the wife, belongs to the husband.

17. j'aurais dû le savoir, I mtgkt to hâve known it. Note that the verb ought being defective, the change of tense îs indicated in English by a change in the dépendent infinitive. Devoir not being thus defective, a literal rendering of such expressions as this is ilnpossible.

47* — 5. ceps ék la bordelaise, mushrooms prepared in Bordeaux style. — " On écrit aussi cèpe et ceps." — Larousse.