So I found the auberge at Saint-Géry, where I waited long hours for the weather to change, after having received a soaking while climbing the escarped cliffs which rise so grandly on one side of the little town.

We were quite drenched on reaching a little wayside auberge.

Here we entered an auberge, where the postman was glad to moisten his dry throat with the green-eyed enemy.

"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."