No wine! it would be so frightfully hot on the mountains!--I told him I never drank wine when I was hot.

But it would be so terribly cold in the cave!--I never drank wine when I was cold.

But the climbing was _sehr stark_--we should need to give ourselves strength!--I never needed to give myself strength.

There was no good water to be found the whole way!--I never drank water.

Then, at last, after a brief grunt with the landlord, he struck:--he simply would not go without wine! I never wished him to do so, I explained; he might take as much as he chose, and I would pay for it, but he need not count me for anything in calculating how much was necessary.