"We have friends there, and we are obliged to leave home because we should be taken for the army." "Well, I don't think that you will find yourself better off at Hall than here.

They are catching up every ablebodied young fellow and putting him into the ranks, and as you both look strong and active, except for your comrade's face, you are both likely to be seized as soon as you enter Hall, especially if you have no papers to show." "We are not thinking of entering Hall, landlord.

Our friends live a few miles away, and they will hide us till the army moves away from these parts." "That will be before long, thank the saints! There is news that a great French army marched from Spires three days ago, and there is like to be a great fight before long; and if the French are beaten Merci will chase them back to the Rhine, recapture all the towns that they have taken, and perhaps enter Alsace." "Which way do they say that the French are marching ?" "They took the road to Weisloch.

Some think that they will come through Wimpfen, and then by Weinsberg here, unless Merci bars the way.

Others again think that they will make their way down through Stuttgart.