[4] A diminutive of endearment for Anna. Anusia is another form.
[5] One of the chiefs of a confederacy formed against the king, Yan Kazimir, by soldiers who had not received their pay.
[6] The story in Poland is that storks bring all the infants to the country.
[7] This refers to the axelike form of the numeral 7.
[8] Diminutive of Barbara.
[9] Diminutive of Krystina, or Christiana.
[10] Drohoyovski is Parma Krysia’s family name.
[11] A diminutive of Anna, expressing endearment.
[12] To place a water-melon in the carriage of a suitor was one way of refusing him.
[13] “Kot” means “cat,” hence Basia’s exclamations are, “Scot, Scot! cat, cat!”