“Then we directed our steps from Saint-Gille to Montpellier, and there they showed us the celebrated Shell....”
“Oh yes—which is in the Vignolle, and the book calls it the ‘horn of Montpellier.’”
“That’s it; and from there we marched to Narbonne.”
“Ah! that is what I was waiting for!”
“But why, my father? At Narbonne I saw the ‘Three Nurses,’ and then the Archbishop’s palace, also the wood carvings in the church of Saint-Paul.”
“And then?”
“My father, the song says nothing more than:
“‘Carcassone and Narbonne are two very good towns, to take on the way to Bezièrs; Pézénas is quite nice; but the prettiest girls are at Montpellier.’”
“Why bungler! Didst thou not see the Frog?”
“But what frog?”