Louis Koch

“ You must always write in the correspondence-book the tasks and lessons for each day.
Monsieur, veuillez, s'il vous plaît, inscrire sur le cahier de correspondance les livres dont nous aurons besoin.
Qui a effacé la note que gavais mise sur le cahier de correspondance ?
Où est le cahier de correspondance ?
L'élève qui le tient suit l'allemand et il l'a emporté avec lui.
Il en faut un aussi pour l'anglais. — Les pensionnaires et demipensionnaires auront un cahier de correspondance par étude.
Les externes doivent aussi avoir un cahier de correspondance que les parents signeront. ”

“ What! He calls me! And I am wasting my time in arguing! Now, let's endeavour to overtake him. Provided we don't arrive too late at the terminus!
FareweH, my friends, much pleasure to you!
Good bye and a pleasant journey to you!
Thank you, I shall see you again this evening!
DIALOGUE XIV.
The same.
Now we are at the end of-the day. It is the hour for going back.
How fast that runs on a holiday, does it not?
Who doubts it? The truth is that I have rightly spent my day and have thoroughly amused myself. First,
bord, après le déjeuner, mon père m'a conduit au musée de peinture. ”

“ I shall give you a dictation in order to accustom you to English spelling.
I am going to dictatesome grammatical remarks to you, which you shall copy out in your English note-book.
Why don't you write ?
I have no pen.
You never have anything.
— You always want for something.
—Who can lend a pen to master B. ?
I have no ink.
Je ne puis pas ouvrir mon encrier.
Servez-vous de-celui de l'élève D. Mettez votre encrier entre vous et votre voisin.
Mon cahier est fini.
Prêtez-lui une feuille de papier.
Vous dictez trop vite; je ne peux pas suivre. Je n'entends pas. ”

“ You have not brought it for these last four days and you have had new ones set. If you let them increase thus, you shall soon be no more able to do them.
I will double it.
It is too badly written for me to accept it.
What impositions have I still to do?
You have fifty lines for distraction; twenty-five for having forgotten your book, and two pages for lessonsbadly learned.
Will you accept an exemption ?
Impossible; you can't pay off your punishment. One never buys the power to be idle. I shall accept an exemption, if to-morrow you repeat your lesson to me without mistake. ”

“ Indeed these are two titles which will open to you all the chief pursuits.
I could content myself wilh a bachelor of letters' degree for some pursuits, for instance if I would study law or apply myself to pursuits altogether literary. But I am fond of the sludy of sciences, chiefly that of physical and natural sciences, and I should feel, I believe, some taste for the study of medicine.
It's a very vast science and to which the knowledge of many other auxiliary sciences is useful and even necessary. And your brother, what career is
à quelle carrière se destine-t-il? ”

“ Sir, you punish us. sometimes, butyou don't reward us too often.
Quelles récompenses nous donnerez-vous , quand vous serez content de nous ?
Vous trouverez la première récompense en vous-mêmes, dans la conscience d'avoir fait votre devoir ; dans la satisfaction que vous en éprouverez.
La seconde sera l'approbation de vos parents, les éloges mérités qu'ils vous donneront quand ils apprendront par votre bulletin trimestriel que vos maîtres sont satisfaits de vous. ”

“ Ces dialogues leur rendront possible ce genre d'exercice amusant et instructif tout a la fois.
Afin d'exercer l'eleve a s'exprimer non-seulement sur des sujets purement classiques, mais encore sur tout ce qui se rattache a sa vie en dehors du lycee, on s'est appliqué, dans les dialogues de cette deuxieme partie, a reunir les expressions les plus usuelles du langage familier, et on les a, en outre, fait preceder d'un vocabulaire des termes les plus necessaires dans la conversation.
VOCABULAIRE
L'onivers. The universe.
Dieu. God.
Creer. To create.
Creation. Creation. ”

“ Good bye, I shall see you' again next Monday at the same hour! -
DIALOGUE XXII.
Gymnastics.
Draw up, boys! We begin by the movements of the arms.
Where are the dumbbells?
Here they are, but mine are too heavy. I can hardly raise one of them with both hands.
Take two lower numbers.
Attention! One, two. One, two. Quicker. One, two,three,four! Well, mark the time, but keep up with the others, Henry! Drop your arms instead of raising them,' you don't keep time.
Ecartez-vous davantage l'un de l'autre, vous vous cognerez. ”

“ Nice is the mess in which your hair is!And you, you believe you have washed your hands? Where is your basin? Where is your soap ? You haven 't touched it.
I beg your pardon, Sir, but I have some chaps which prevent me from washing myself properly.
Here is your towel. Hang it up in its place.
Have you got any pomatum?
No, I hate the smell of it, and my hair lies smooth without it.
Your shoes are very dirty.
Have you not others ?
Excuse me. Here they are under my bed. These are clean.
Henry, lend me your shoe-horn, my shoes won't fit.
Here you are; you will put it back into my drawer. ”

“ What are you waiting for to get up? Must we begin the day by punishments? Get up.
Be quick, make up for lost time, let me find you presently dressed and ready to go out with the others.
Pick up those sheets and pillows you have thrown on the ground, and don't tread on them.
Ah ! Sir, how cold, it is this morning! How pleasant it would be to stay in bed for half an hour more!
You know well that you will never be allowed to do so. Dress yourself quickly, that will make youwarm again. ”

“ Peloton, par le flanc droit. À droite! Peloton, en avant!. Marche!
Partons du pied gauche!
Pas de route. Pas ordinaire. Pas accéléré.
Pas redoublé. Pas de charge.
Peloton, par file à gauche., marche!
DIALOGUE XXVI.
The same.
Come, we are going to make a march. But for that you must draw up properly.
Let's see, whether you'll know how to do it without further explanations.
Platoon! right about, face!
Right, I told you. But don't mistake thus.
There you are all thrown into disorder like a.flock of sheep, here and there. Attention! ”

“ Non, ce n'est pas moi.
Tenez, voici un dessin au trait qui sera plus facile à reproduire.
Tenez donc mieux votre crayon. Ne voyez-vous pas que votre portecrayon n'est pas assez serré? Faites descendre l'anneau plus bas.
Il ne faut pas que le crayon tremble dans la main.
Qu'est-ce que c'est que ce crayon-ci ? Vous
Chiefly landscape.
Well, but you must begin with the head.
When you have drawn some casts, you will be able to indulge your taste for nature. ”

“ Vous en rapporterez le corrigé six fois.
Montrez-moi votre cahier.
de corrigés. — Vous n'avez pas mis ce devoir au net.
Je déchirerai vos cahiers quand ils seront mal tenus.
Lisez la première phrase de l'exercice.
Vous n'aurez pas à rapporter le corrigé des phrases qui seront sans faute.— Si votre devoir est sans faute, vous n'aurez pas à le
I have not done that exercise; I have done the next one.
You never do what you are told. Your parsing is unfinished ; there were eight irregular verbs in the task, you put but five of them. ”

“ Je ne sais, mais je ne serais pas étonné qu'on allât au Jardin des Plantes.
Nous verrons bien.
Il est permis de causer au moins à la promenade ?
Heureusement. C'est bien assez de se taire en classe et à l'étude.
Aussi écoutez comme on s'en donne à cœurjoie.
Voilà la Madeleine. On nous y a menés l'autre jour; l'intérieur de l'église n'offre pas grand intérêt.
Plus pourtant que NotreDame de Lorette, couverte de dorure et plus brillante que majestueuse.
Quel triste spectacle que ces ruines qui nous
and boulevards, you must draw up in two bands, and not run headlong before the vehicles. ”

“ Vous savez que le professeur est plus sévère que moi. Tenez-vous pour avertis.
Les bonnes notes sont ordinairement plus difficiles à obtenir en classe qu'en étude.
begin the day badly.
Be sensible!
Boys, learn your lessons.
Learn in your own mind ; when you know, you will ask to be allowed to repeat.
Well! nobody knows yet? Come, Durand, do you know ?
I nearly know. I am willing "to try to say.
It is pretty well, look over again your lesson once and you will know it. And you?
Come here and repeat near my desk. Nearer.
Speak low, that you may not prevent your fellows from learning. ”

“ Il faut vous régler sur l'horloge du lycée.
J'ai été retenu à l'étude par le maître répétiteur.
Since monday; I have missed two classes.
I have been absent for the whole week.
DIALOGUE V.
Being late.
N. is not there ?
No, sir; but he will come presently. I have seen him just before coming in. He has been summoned to the office.
Where do you come from?
I come from the office.
Why are you late ?
I could not come sooner.
I live very far from here.
I have overlooked the hour.
My watch is slow.
I don't care.- You must set your watch by the clock of the school. ”

“ Look how this foreshortening is badly done.
I don't call upon you to be as clever as Correggio, but at least copy nearly with accuracy.
DIALOGUE XXI.
The same.
This torso of Hercules is not badly drawn. But there are very stiff muscles, it's too much strained; soften these lines, make something more flexible and which enlivens a little.
Who told you to shade? First learn to sketch well. You will practise stump-drawing when you know a little bet-
ter pencil-drawing. I will not have these hatchings, these ornamentations out of place. All that will come in the proper time. ”

“ Come, how many are we?
Ten, twelve, fifteen, twenty, twenty-two, twenty-three. We must be even. Try then to find another one to make up the two dozen.
Will you play, Lewis?
No, I don't like running, I grow tired too quick.
There's the right number. We are ready.
Let us part. Let us begin.
Who will begin? - We must draw lots. —
Well, let us take the distance.
Yes, but let the tall ones be almost equally parted.
Il n'y a pas de plaisir sans cela. Il faut autant de forces d'un côté que de l'autre pour bien faire. ”

“ Levez-vous et faites la prière. Sortez!
Every body is seated ?
Silence yonder! You are not here to chatter, content yourself with eating.
Every body is helped?
No one asks for soup again?
I, sir, have not had enough.
Hand me your plate.
Here it is.
Have you got enough ?
Yes, sir, thank you. Why don't you eat, master N. ?
I am not hungry, sir. I am rather thirsty.
And you, master B., eat a little faster, if you please.
Your fellows have already done.
Stand up and say the prayer. Walk out! ”

“ Je ne pouvais pas faire mieux, tu l'aurais laissé prendre tout comme moi.
Cela ne fait rien, nous en prendrons d'autres.
J'en réponds.
There's no sport otherwise. We want an equal strength on each side to get on well.
Come, it is our turn to give touch.
Paul goes. Attention, there.
There he is, there he is come. Quick, quick, Paul. All right! There's a prisoner!
Where is the prison? —
It is here, but we must watch over now. It is not quite bright and pleasant to have prisoners to guard.
There are two. See how he is running, that tall one. The other will not overtake him. ”

“ Come, boys, go to the fountain and wash your hands before going into the class.
Whose book is this lying in the yard and all torn ? He who has forgotten it shall pay dearly for it.
Fall in, this is the time.
Go into the class, boys, and make no noise while you are waiting for the master.
DIALOGUE VIII.
Walking out.
What are the days for walking out?
On Thursdays and Sundays, save when it is too bad weather.
We. doubtless set off early ?
At two o'clock in winter,
à deux heures et demie en été. ”

“ No, very luckily.
Stand in prime.
Sir, I have nearly forgotten the first movements you have taught me.
I shall make you learn them over again. But stand better. You are not covered, you must stand sideways. Come, are you well grounded?
How many regular thrusts are there, do you remember them?
Eight as a theory, I believe.
Yes, but" in practise we only make use of four thrusts. Prime, when you strike straight into your adversary's breast. Try this thrust first, with hand up
bord, la main haute et renversée. ”

“ Ah! good, there's one on the ground. Truce, truce! We must see if he did not hurt himself, he seems to limp.
Let us go and see.
What is the matter with him ? It's only a scratch. He has sprained his ankle. He only wants a bit of rest to recover.
You don't play at prisoners' base, you three?
No, we prefer playing at leap-frog. Do you join us?
It is a childish game.
Like all games. What does it matter, provided we amuse ourselves?
But I don't care about it at all. We might as
jouer tout de suite à colin-maillard. ”

“ Sometimes only the master of botany and geology lakes us to a short distance from town. But this walk is not a sport, it is an itinerant class. We say our lessons on the way and if we don't take good heed, we. may be punished just as in class.
What then is required of you in those scientifical trips?
We must pick up certain plants or rocks which the master tells us. Or else we must say at the first glance to what tribe belongs this or that flower which is shown to us, what is the name of that stone, what is the age of this rock, what is that fossil,
sile, où il se trouve, etc. ”

“ Do you know English?
Not much. I understand it a little; but I do not yet speak fluently.
You make yourself understood, it is the main point.
You are still too little acquainted with the class.
Have you already learned English?
Where have you learned it?
Have you been - in England ?
How long?
I have had a private tutor.
I have learned that language at home and at school.
You must fag hard to be even with your work.
I have not practised English for these two years.
For that very reason I lack practice.
Here are the books which you will need in this class. ”

“ No doubt you won't neglect the rest?
I strive to do my best to learn. But every branch of study does not afford the same attraction. For instance geography is not by far so attractive to me as history.
How many subjects are taken in your programme?
I don't know, I never thought of reckoning them, but it's easy : first the four classical languages, French, Latin, Greek and English.
Next history and geo-
l'hisloire et la géographie, qui ne nous prennent qu'une ou deux classes par semaine. ”

“ The masters are more indulgent, they read to us nearly entertaining stories in study and in class.
Every body is smiling; in short if the school was like thatthe whole year, we should almost regret it during the vacations.
Oh no! I like home a great deal better. And I always find the holidays too short: walking , fishing-party, hunting, riding, driving, boating; we have 'but the difficulty of choosing. Free from cares, no lessons, no class, we amuse ourselves as we please.
That's the true merry time The day of the distribution is also a very grand day for those who carry prizes ”

“ Et aujourd'hui c'est le .plus grand arbre du Jardin des Plantes !
Vite, vite, nous allons être en retard. Dé-
mirth of the little ones , in seeing the lion, the tiger, and in teasing them.
With how loud cries all those little folks would run away, if there were a single bar broken here !
Now, there are the hothouses, there 's the rotunda, there are the aviaries, the galleries.
One may lose his way here.
We have no time to see every thing, we go on too quick.
It is because they want to show us the bearden. It is likely. ”

“ That's right. So is he much liked by good pupils, but dreaded by the others. He does not spare them; he does not bear the slightest noise in the class, and he is without pity for the would-be idle. He leads them a very hard life.
According to this judgment, I see you are not one of those who have to fear his strictness.
Indeed , he has not yet punished me even once.
You have other masters besides that one?
Yes, sir, a master of natural philosophy, a master of history and two masters for the living languages. ”

“ But hold your tongue, that I may hear the explanations: What is it said?
It is said that this style of doors and windows which you see there is called ogive, ogive architecture.
It's gothic style.
I don't understand all the terms which our cicerone makes use of. Do you?
They make us admire the rose or rose-window hewn out of the rock.
Just fancy that it is thirteen metres in diameter ?
But look at that large nave, and those pillars wilhleafy capitals, and those wonderful glass windows, and those stone-works of all kind. -
Y a-t-il rien de plus beau au inonde? ”