Le caniche teigneux, the mangy poodle

3. ces brioches dites poupées, those brioches (a kind of sweet bun), caUed doUs, probably from their shape.

4. des formes indéfiniment répétées, de nuances attendries, an endleas exhibition of articles of similar shape and of soft color.

5. parées de je ne sais quelle virginité, adomed with a certain freshness which they toill lose in the aven.

6. de l'occiput aux sabots, from their neck to the top of their wooden shoes.

7. est aux prises avec la matière, etc., is struggling with nuUter in its circvlar or gyratory dance (as the clay which the potter is shapîng revolves).