achetée d'occasion, bought as a bargain

l. 29. une pendaison de crémaillère', pendre la crémaillère is to give a house-warming, lit. to boil the first kettle, which is done by suspending it from the ' pot-hook ' (crémaillère), i. e, a rack with a sliding pièce which allowed of the pot hung at the bottom to be raised or lowered at will. Thèse pot-hooks are still commonly used in country places in France and England.

Page 86. 1. 7. éhoxmffant, startling, stunning, enough to make one's hair stand on end ; éhoiinffer, to dishevel.

1. 18. à coiffes significatives, with suggestive-looking caps.

1. 20. kalmoiique. The Calmucks are a Mongol tribe living in the Russian territories of Central Asia.