jaseron, a very light and fine necklace of gold

Page 96. — i. trappistes, monks of the convent of La Trappe, in France. The order was founded by Rancé in the XVI Ith century. The rules of the Bénédictines seemed to him too mild, and he sub jected his monks to the most severe rules ever adopted by an y monastic order. They rise at 2 o*clock in the morning, celebrate mass and pray during eleven hours of the day, and work hard in the fields the rest of the time. They greet each other with the word ^^ Mémento mori'^ ; aside from that they are not allowed to speak, and communicate with each other only by means of signs.

They live on herbs, roots and water. The sleep in their coffin, on straw.

2. coucher sur le carreau, stretch one on the ground. Carré or carreau •=. the square staked out for the duelling ground.