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1. konnte. Idiom? Cf. page 5, note 6.

2. sie sog sie, the second sie might well have been avoided by substituting the demonstrat. pron. dieselben.

3. es (indef.) rauschte und rieselte, there was a rustling and drizzling.

4. angerauscht. Note the idiomatic use of the perf. partic. of a verb of motion after kommen, to express the manner of coming. Transl. roaring.

5. den ganzen Tag. Force of the accusative? Cf. page 29, note 3.

6. es (indef.), for das Wasser.

7. sie wand sie aus; cf. note 2, above.

8. als wollte, as if it was to . . . Why the past subjunctive? Cf. page 1, note 5.

9. es (indef.), something.

10. was, what (it was that).