Author: George Lyman Kittredge

Publisher: Theclassics.Us

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 9781230450018

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 edition. Excerpt: ...hero, coming home triste et chagrin, F, P, U b, c triste et bien malau, Y, receives on his arriving felicitations from his mother on account of the birth of a son. He has no heart to respond to these: "Ni de ma femme, ni de mon fils, je ne saurais me rdjoui." He asks that his bed may be made, with precautions against his wife's hearing. At midnight he is dead. The wife, hearing the men-servants weeping, asks her mother-in-law the cause. The best horse horses has been found dead in the stable, has strayed away, etc., B, D-S, GG. "No matter for that," says the wife; "when Renaud comes he will bring better," B, D-G, L-Q. GG. The maids are heard weeping; why is that? They have lost, or injured, sheets in the washing, B, D, B, G, J. When Renaud comes we shall have better, B, D, E, G. Or a piece of plate has been lost or broken, A, F, H, I, K, O. It is children with the tooth ache, F, U a, b, c, d. "What is this chanting which I hear?" It is a procession, making the tour of the house: B, D-F, L, P-X, GG. "What gown shall I wear when I go to church?" Black is the color for women at their churching, B, F, I, L, M, O, P, V, Y; black is more becoming, plus joli, plus convenant, plus consdquent. A, D, H, K, N, R, X, BB, DD, GG; "quittez le ros', quittz le gris, prenez le noir, pour mieux choisir," etc., Q, W, U, E, S, T. Besides these four questions, all of which occur in Breton ballads, there are two which are met with in many versions, always coming before the last. "What is this pounding (frapper, cogner, taper) which I hear?" It is carpenters, or masons, repairing some part of the house, D, E, K, L, N, P-U, W; A, V, X, AA; GG. "Why are the bells ringing?" For a...