me voilà parti! then I launchedforthl

Page 23. — i. il y a quinze jours, afortnight ago. 2. se monte, can be ridden.

Page 24. — I. J'ai dû être, 7 musi hâve becn,

2. pelham (from the sumame Pelhain)^ Pelham hit, a combination of the curb and the snaffle.

3. m'écorchaient les lèvres, hurned my lips, Écorchef^Ut., "to skin," "flay."

4. j'avais si bien la tète à l'envers, I was so terrihly upsei. A l'envers =" WTong side ont," "upside down."

Page 26. — I. Brave, good.

2. ne pouvait, occasionally with pouvoir négation is expressed by ne alone; also with oser, cesser, and savoir, and in a few idiomatîc constructions.