“So you have a lodging?”

“Yes, I have.”

“And where is your lodging?”

“In the elephant,” said Gavroche.

Montparnasse, though not naturally inclined to astonishment, could not restrain an exclamation.

“In the elephant!”

“Well, yes, in the elephant!” retorted Gavroche. “ Kekçaa? ”

This is another word of the language which no one writes, and which everyone speaks.

Kekçaa signifies: Qu’est que c’est que cela a? 59