hedges, and copses, and ditches, and fell'd trees
laid this way and that to cover them (as they always have).--Count
Solmes should have sent us,--we would have fired muzzle to muzzle with
them for their lives.--There was nothing to be done for the horse:--he
had his foot shot off however for his pains, continued the corporal, the
very next campaign at Landen.--Poor Trim got his wound there, quoth
my uncle Toby.--'Twas owing, an' please your honour, entirely to count
Solmes,--had he drubbed them soundly at Steenkirk, they would not have
fought us at Landen.--Possibly not,--Trim, said my uncle Toby;--though
if they have the advantage of a wood, or you give them a moment's time
to intrench themselves, they are a nation which will pop and pop for
ever at you.--There is no way but to march coolly up to them,--receive
their fire, and fall in upon them, pell-mell--Ding dong, added
Trim.--Horse and foot, said my uncle Toby.--Helter Skelter, said
Trim.--Right and left, cried my uncle Toby.--Blood an' ounds, shouted
the corporal;--the battle raged,--Yorick drew his chair a little to one
side for safety, and after a moment's pause, my uncle Toby sinking his
voice a note,--resumed the discourse as follows.

Chapter 3.XXII.

King William, said my uncle Toby, addressing himself to Yorick, was so
terribly provoked at count Solmes for disobeying his orders, that he
would not suffer him to come into his presence for many months after.--I
fear, answered Yorick, the squire will be as much provoked at the
corporal, as the King at the count.--But 'twould be singularly hard
in this case, continued be, if corporal Trim, who has behaved so
diametrically opposite to count Solmes, should have the fate to be
rewarded with the same disgrace:--too oft in this world, do things take
that train.--I would spring a mine, cried my uncle Toby, rising up,--and
blow up my fortifications, and my house with them, and we would perish
under their ruins, ere I would stand by and see it.--Trim directed a
slight,--but a grateful bow towards his master,--and so the chapter
ends.

Chapter 3.XXIII.

--Then, Yorick, replied my uncle Toby, you and I will lead the way
abreast,--and do you, corporal, follow a few paces behind us.--And
Susannah, an' please your honour, said Trim, shall be put in the
rear.--'Twas an excellent disposition,--and in this order, without
either drums beating, or colours flying, they marched slowly from my
uncle Toby's house to Shan