x qui se seroient
servis du meme moyen, il seroit necessaire de les baptiser sous
condition; & en cela le Conseil se conforme a tous les rituels, qui en
autorisant le bapteme d'un enfant qui fait paroitre quelque partie
de son corps, enjoignent neantmoins, & ordonnent de le baptiser sous
condition, s'il vient heureusement au monde.

Delibere en Sorbonne, le 10 Avril, 1733.
A. Le Moyne.
L. De Romigny.
De Marcilly.

Mr. Tristram Shandy's compliments to Messrs. Le Moyne, De Romigny, and
De Marcilly; hopes they all rested well the night after so tiresome a
consultation.--He begs to know, whether after the ceremony of marriage,
and before that of consummation, the baptizing all the Homunculi at
once, slapdash, by injection, would not be a shorter and safer cut
still; on condition, as above, That if the Homunculi do well, and come
safe into the world after this, that each and every of them shall be
baptized again (sous condition)--And provided, in the second place, That
the thing can be done, which Mr. Shandy apprehends it may, par le moyen
d'une petite canulle, and sans faire aucune tort au pere.

Chapter 1.XXI.

--I wonder what's all that noise, and running backwards and forwards
for, above stairs, quoth my father, addressing himself, after an hour
and a half's silence, to my uncle Toby,--who, you must know, was sitting
on the opposite side of the fire, smoaking his social pipe all the time,
in mute contemplation of a new pair of black plush-breeches which he
had got on:--What can they be doing, brother?--quoth my father,--we can
scarce hear ourselves talk.

I think, replied my uncle Toby, taking his pipe from his mouth, and
striking the head of it two or three times upon the nail of his left
thumb, as he began his sentence,--I think, says he:--But to enter
rightly into my uncle Toby's sentiments upon this matter, you must be
made to enter first a little into his character, the out-lines of which
I shall just give you, and then the dialogue between him and my father
will go on as well again.

Pray what was that man's name,--for I write in such a hurry, I have no
time to recollect or look for it,--who first made the observation, 'That
there was great inconstancy in our air and climate?' Whoever he was,
'twas a just and good observation in him.--But the corollary drawn from
it, namely, 'That it is this which has furnished us with such a variety
of odd and whimsical characters;'--that was not h