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156 VOCABULARY.
ttudy le cabinet d'etude (de
travail)
out of breath hors d'haleine
household le menage
Exercices de composition.
KB. Only the difficult rend-
erings are given.
JOHN BUNYAN.
1. private simple
early in his life de bonne
heure
the worst les plus graves
such as de ceux
to think venial regard er
comme veniel
keen vif
to make (followed by an adj.]
rendre
to commit blasphemy blas-
pbe*mer
fiend esprit malin
a waste of snow des abimes
de neige
Cain Cam
get inscrit
mental agony
morales
les souffrances
to disorder affecter, de*ranger
a man in the palsy un pa-
ralytique
2. long continued continu
the cloud breaks le nuage
se dissipe
to urge porter a
to impart faire partager
to join se joindre a
experimental knowledge]! 'ex-
pdrience, f.
to supply suppleer a
to melt attendrir aux larmes
laboured e'labore'
Hebraist hebraisant
3. widely circulated re*pandu
progress le voyage
in his own life time de son
vivant
learned erudit
du monde
polite les gens
and had been = and it made
cottager le villageois
to take its proper place =
to hold the rank it deserved
more correctly mieux
THE LITTLE PHILOSOPHER
NB. Mr. Lowel adresses the
boy in the 2d pers. sing.
4. to dismount mettre pied
a terre
to get loose ecbapper
to gallop away s'en aller
au galop
by name = by his name
on his approach = when
he approached
the affair = his embarrassment
where = at the place (1'en-
droit)
turn le coude
what shall I give you =
what will you?
putting his hand = fum-
bling (fouiller)
5. can = could
pray = tell me
to feed brouter
this fine weather par ce
beau temps
to have rather aimer mieux
as good aussi amusant
to set to work faire tra-
vailler
just by tout pres d'ici
go to my dinner = go dine
(XX)
what are those? qu'est-ce
que c'est que cela?
footballs to kick des
pour jouer
ballons
avec
the cold iceather = when
it is cold
and then I have j'ai aussi
6 to walk . . . through witf*
= to go in
nothing else = nothing more
to run for errands
commission
aller en
that is as good as play =*
that amuses me as much
as to play
to mind se soucier de
brother T. = it is my brother
T. who
full of
holes troue"
a better pair = better [ones]
(of them}
Sundays = the Sunday
let in water = take the water
I don't care for that cela
m'est e"gal
to have as lief aimer autant
(condit.)
it hurts my head = it
wounds me
to get under se mettre sous
till it is over = till the
rain is passed
to work on == to continue
to work
7. dry altere
this hot weather par ces
grandes cnaleurs
quite a = a true
Sir? plait -il?
no harm, I hope? il n'y pas
de mal, n'est-ce pas?
you
seem tu m'as Fair
to make want = to make
feel wants
spelling
book un ABC
so ( 192. b. 2)
a good contented boy = a
boy easy
I will == yes
to content