LE LONG DU SENTIER 



the board, leg crossed, head on one side ; 

 the idea was ready for the birth. 



"Ce Monsieur Id est tres gentil, tres 

 aimable." This was mere generality; 

 he halted for the expression which 

 would convey a further shade of mean- 

 ing, a more definite characterization, the 

 result of nicer analysis. "II me parait 

 que ce Monsieur la est bien pose." 



"Bien pose"! If this was not the mot 

 juste, the phrase fitting his idea as your 

 pint flask fits the precious pint it holds, 

 then indeed is language but a vain 

 thing ! 



It is continual pleasure to do with 

 men who are, as the Scotch say, quick at 

 the uptak, to whom a word is as good as 

 a lecture. On a shooting trip, one mem- 

 ber of the party had failed to kill his 

 animal, when, journeying homeward, a 

 last chance presented itself. The cari- 

 bou was on a bare hillside, across a 

 ravine, where he could not get away 

 without offering several chances, but the 



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