flots : tassels

5. grelots, sonnettes. The grelot is spherical and hoUow, 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 tkeir sweetkearts,

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 ripples of admiration as tkey passed. "