flots : tassels

5. grelots, sonnettes. The grelot is spherical and hollow, and contains a free bail ; the sonnette is of the ordinary bell shape and coc tains a swinging tongue.

6. venues en croupe de leur galant : riding behind their sweethearts.

7. Mésomopotamie : Mesopotamia ; strictly that part of Asiatic Turkey between the Euphrates and the Tigris rivers.

8. traçant sur leur passage comme des sillons glorieux: leaving rippîes of admiration as they passed.