Ça va. Good

23. Diable. Note the omission of the definite article. This frequently occurs in condensed sentences, such as titles of books, enumerations, addresses, advertisements, proverbs, interjections, and the like.

26. Frère Jacques. This is the name of one of the most popular children’s songs of France. The song is in the form of a round; that is, one singer sings the first line. When he begins the second, a second singer starts the first; as the first singer commences the

NOTES

third and the second the second, a third singer starts the first, and so on. The words are as follows:

Frère Jacques, (bis)

Dormez-vous? (bis)

Sonnez les matines, (bis)

Dig, din, don! (bis)

30. quinquets. A quinquet is a kind of lamp, but is frequently used in slang, as it is in English, for eye.

Page 33. — 1. parterre. The French parterre is not to be confused with the English use of that word. With us, the parterre is understood to denote that part of the floor of a theatre, generally known as the “ pit. ” In a French theatre we find the following arrangement of seats: fauteuils d'orchestre, the best seats which are the seats next to the orchestra; then several rows of seats follow, which are called stalles d'orchestre, and behind these is the parterre. The parterre is usually reserved exclusively for men.

VOCABULARY

ABBREVIATIONS

The following abbreviations have been used in the vocabulary:

adj. = adjective

m., f. = masculine and

adv. = adverb

feminine sub¬

/. = feminine substantive

stantive

intj. = interjection

p. = page

l. = line

pi. = plural

m. = masculine substantive

s. = substantive

sing. = singular

VOCABULARY

All words have been included in the vocabulary, including proper names, with the exception of those few proper names which the author has used for fictitious characters and which necessarily have the same form in both languages.

à, to, toward, at, for, in, into, within, on, upon, of, from, with, by, until, about, according to, good-bye until, abord (d’), first, first of all.

accepter, to accept, accord (d’), in agreement, accorder, to agree, acheter, to buy.