For it was his common practice to go to bed with the birds and rise with the sun; and more often than not he lodged in the inn of the silver moon, with moss for a couch, leafy boughs for a canopy and the stars for night-lightsaccommodations infinitely more agreeable than those afforded by the grubby and malodorous auberge of the wayside average.

(For the Mirror.) "Tais-toi, Louise," exclaimed the landlady of a small but neat auberge at to her daughter, a sweet child, about seven years of age, who, playing with a little curly French dog, was sitting on a three-legged stool, humming a trifling chanson which she had gleaned from a collection of ditties pertaining to an old woman, who, when the landlady might be busily engaged, attended the infant steps and movements of Louise.

We returned over the plain in the wind, under the gloomy sky, passed L'Isle at dusk, and after walking an hour with a rain following close behind us, stopped at an auberge in Le Thor, where we rested our tired frames and broke our long day's fasting.

I stopped to give Violette a meal at a wayside auberge on the side of a hill not far from Soissonsa place surrounded by old oaks, and with so many crows that one could scarce hear one's own voice.

"Dans quelle auberge, lui demande le roi d'un ton moqueur, t'es-tu fait arranger de la sorte?Sire, répond le grognard sans se déconcerter, dans une auberge où vous avez payé votre écot: à Kollin."

Across the way La Roque-Sainte-Marguerite stood out prominently and with such definition in that clear air that Duchemin identified the figure of the landlord, standing in the door of the auberge with arms raised and elbows thrust out on a level with his eyes: the pose of a man using field-glasses.

The Auberges of the old Knights, the Palace of the Grand Master, the Church of St. John, and other relics of past time, but more especially the fortifications, invest the place with a romantic interest, and I suspect that, after Venice and Granada, there are few cities where the Middle Ages have left more impressive traces of their history.

" They found a small auberge before which Hermia unpacked her orchestra and played.