[61] At a spring called the Fountain of Thirst, or the
Fountain of the Fays, "corruptly called 'La Font des _Sees'_" (says a
writer in 1698), and every year, in the month of May, a fair is held
in the neighbouring mead, when the pastrycooks sell figures of women
'_bien coiffées,_' called 'Merlusines.'